Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] eyes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
2 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
3 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
4 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
5 | ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’ |
6 | Before her astonished eyes he turned on his heel and walked from the discotheque floor , leaving her alone in the midst of the dancers . |
7 | Before her astonished eyes he calmly sat down in the chair at the opposite side of the desk . |
8 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
9 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
10 | And in his yellow eyes I could see only hate and evil . |
11 | I 'm impaled on the blue flames of his blow-torch eyes you see . ’ |
12 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
13 | The moisture bathed our cheeks , deliciously , until with our tickling eyes we drew it in . |