Example sentences of "[verb] her eyes to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped her eyes to the mug , unable to face his withering scorn . |
| 2 | She dropped her eyes to the tablecloth , suddenly confused and deeply ashamed of herself . |
| 3 | She dropped her eyes to the desk , staring unseeingly at the ledger lying on the polished wooden surface . |
| 4 | As she moved up , Noreen lifted her eyes to the choir stalls , as if in a signal , and the organ segued to a softer introduction to the Recessional Hymn . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |
| 6 | Over the coming months , Leo opened her eyes to the other Manhattan , to another America . |
| 7 | She looked abruptly away and turned her eyes to the small villages they sped through , pretty places with interesting-looking shops . |
| 8 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 9 | She swivelled her eyes to the potatoes Léonie was fetching from their earthy resting-place on the larder floor . |
| 10 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 11 | She had not yet raised her eyes to the frescos ; she would do so in due course ; she found them almost unbearably painful to behold . |
| 12 | Sighing , she lifted the dustbin lid and watched the brown china pieces slip from the shovel , then raised her eyes to the May sky . |
| 13 | She raised her eyes to the sky . |
| 14 | She raised her eyes to the weightless tons stacked above their heads . |
| 15 | Claudia raised her eyes to the man whose own eyes were fixed with deadly intent on her , and silently asked Dana 's forgiveness for what she was about to do . |
| 16 | Claudia raised her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 17 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 18 | Turmoil raged within her as she battled to find an answer to the seemingly insurmountable dilemma , and she raised her eyes to the grey skies as though a solution could be found there . |
| 19 | The little man 's hand shot out again and Caroline quickly raised her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 20 | He followed her eyes to the sides of the room where there were huge tapestries depicting nymphs and shepherds playing in a landscape filled with trees and winding streams . |
| 21 | Shutting her eyes to the inevitability of what lay ahead , she gave herself up to the ride as he took her higher and higher into the peaks , following a winding route off the main road that was little used . |
| 22 | She took a deep breath and leaned out further , groping for the nearest bloom , closing her eyes to the drop beneath her . |
| 23 | ‘ And salmon die after doing that , ’ she added softly , closing her eyes to the bright moon that shone overhead . |
| 24 | Sarah rolled her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 25 | Kate rolled her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 26 | Caroline rolled her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 27 | She could shut her eyes to the future and be content to share the present with him , as her body longed to do . |
| 28 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 29 | There was light of a kind , but it was the thin unreal light of the moon , and Grainne , standing still , adjusting her eyes to the room , saw that there were windows high up , and that moonlight , tinged with green from the forest , poured in from outside . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew I was too generous to him , ’ said Mrs Sowerberry , raising her eyes to the ceiling . |