Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] eyes [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 2 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 3 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 4 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 5 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 6 | The girl in the Chinese house-coat narrowed her eyes upon the central figure in the tableau before her , and the supple lines of her face sharpened into crystal , and lost their smiling gaiety . |
| 7 | Rose ignored her , keeping her eyes on the rattling carriage , holding herself in a permanent half crouch , like a sprinter at the starting post . |
| 8 | My blaster , ’ she said , backing towards a wall and keeping her eyes on the widening gap between the doors . |
| 9 | Swallowing hard , she crawled once more under the rail and inched forward , keeping her eyes on the ground as she went . |
| 10 | She opened the door , keeping her eyes on the patch of darkness beyond the lamp . |
| 11 | Furthermore , British Rail has its eyes on the Bankside site for bringing up the spoil from the tunnel for Channel traffic which it is , so absurdly , driving under the middle of London at astronomical cost . |
| 12 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 13 | She fixed her eyes on the street in an attempt to calm herself . |
| 14 | She fixed her eyes on the jagged line of rocks to which she had to climb . |
| 15 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 16 | Bracing her feet against the Angharad 's deck , she fixed her eyes on the grey smudge of land in the distance , willing it to come nearer . |
| 17 | Robyn queried awkwardly , averting her eyes from the feast of muscle , the dark , dark hair that travelled from his chest down and down … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 21 | But , although Robert strained his eyes against the glass , he could see nothing but impenetrable blackness beyond the hectic yellows and reds cast by the candles . |
| 22 | She would explain the nature of her interest , so awakening in him a wish to know more about what goes on outside Masailand and also opening his eyes to the fact that the white folk see the Masai as childlike . |
| 23 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 24 | Yet nothing , it seemed , could halt the flow of adrenalin that surged upwards or the flush of awareness that overwhelmed her as he cast his eyes over the carefully laid table , the food and , lastly , herself . |
| 25 | He seemed to be having great difficulty in keeping his eyes on the road , but after a corner entailed leaving rather a lot of tyre on the road he apologised then grinned at her . |
| 26 | Dragging the last remnants of his determination together , he fixed his eyes on the dark , looming rock and thought , I will . |
| 27 | Putting his hands in his pockets , and trying to look as though he did this every day , he fixed his eyes on the target . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh fixed his eyes on the pulpit . |
| 29 | He fixed his eyes on the prophecy with fresh deliberation , denying himself the comfort of blinking to be certain he missed nothing . |
| 30 | He fixed his eyes on the cloaked figure and waited . |