Example sentences of "avert [pos pn] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn queried awkwardly , averting her eyes from the feast of muscle , the dark , dark hair that travelled from his chest down and down … |
| 2 | She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages . |
| 3 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 4 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 5 | In a medieval woodcut , a wistful Eve averts her eyes from the scene . |
| 6 | Fukuyama averts his eyes from the poor , and fears no real threat to the permanent triumph of consumer capitalist society except nostalgia and boredom . |
| 7 | The passenger in the railway carriage would drop his head into his newspaper and avert his eyes from the window . |
| 8 | A big , flat coal barge was passing under the bridge and I averted my eyes from the sight of it . |
| 9 | Meredith averted her eyes from the breadth of muscular chest sharply defined beneath the crisp linen shirt by the movement . |
| 10 | ‘ Your nephew asked me if I was the one you were going to marry , ’ she blurted out as she averted her eyes from the probing intentness of his . |
| 11 | He came back through then and she averted her eyes from the fire , and his face , and wandered over to the window , to sober herself by staring once again at the pouring rain . |
| 12 | Robbie averted her eyes from the sight of a broad strong chest and firm muscular thighs . |
| 13 | Morton averted his eyes from the violated corpse of the girl on the slab . |
| 14 | Kirov averted his eyes from the photograph abruptly . |