Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always been exclusively attracted to girls and wimmin in any sexual or deep emotional way ; it has always been a part of me as grey eyes or dark hair . |
| 2 | He had a lot of peculiar habits , one of them being to stare hard at you with steely eyes . |
| 3 | She noticed the card , noticed me with widening eyes , and in a short while detached herself from the owners and stood and waited . |
| 4 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 6 | He raised his head and turned towards me with clouded eyes . |
| 7 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 8 | A big brown otter , cleverly mounted , looked up at me with bright eyes . |
| 9 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 10 | By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’ |
| 11 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 12 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 13 | But the only thing there was a fragile gecko , which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes . |
| 14 | Through the open door I could see Harry hanging on to the horse 's head and staring at me with frightened eyes . |
| 15 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 16 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 17 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 18 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 19 | A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched them with sleepy eyes . |
| 20 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 21 | ‘ What a passionate speech , ’ he drawled laconically , reaching for the Raybans and sliding them over heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 22 | The coroner glared at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 23 | She looked at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 24 | But the playmaster himself came to look him over and turn him about and about , examining him through narrowed eyes and hearing over his lines . |
| 25 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ said Samuel Roberts , watching him through narrowed eyes , ‘ she said it was a cod . |
| 26 | Folly lay motionless , secretly revelling in her unaccustomed passivity , and watching him through half-closed eyes . |
| 27 | She sniffed and looked up at him through tear-filled eyes . |
| 28 | Since childhood Wycliffe had experienced episodes when he seemed to see the world about him through fresh eyes , as though , without warning , he had become an intruder in some foreign place , and he would be overcome by the strangeness of it all . |
| 29 | Adam 's voice held a sharp note of concern and she looked up at him through dazed eyes , almost surprised to see him still standing there . |
| 30 | For a moment she stared up at him through glistening eyes , soothed by his hands and the deep sound of his voice . |