Example sentences of "his eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crouched before the bookcase and ran his eyes along the tightly packed , fading broken spines of familiar paperbacks , reading names and titles . |
| 2 | Thiercelin stood straining his eyes into the gloom . |
| 3 | They stay still , eyes locked together and Iain smiles but Andrew says nothing with his mouth but keeps pouring his love out of his eyes into Iain 's . |
| 4 | The soft lights in the surrounding trees emphasised the harsh hollows and angles of his features , turned his eyes into dark caverns , compelling but unfathomable … |
| 5 | Charlie was sitting on the edge of a dressing-chair , and his eyes above his mask were as wide as Gwenellen 's at their widest . |
| 6 | He caught that at once and his eyes above the mask glittered . |
| 7 | Buddhist monk covers his eyes amid tear gas fired by the security forces during a demonstration against the Indo-Sri Lanka accord in Colombo , 1987 . |
| 8 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 9 | When he lifted his eyes towards her again he thought he was safe to continue his stare , thought she was still unaware of the nature of the examination . |
| 10 | He stood in the middle of the deserted snow-packed road and raised his eyes towards the Feldwebel with the expression of a dying dog towards its master . |
| 11 | At last he pulled his eyes towards her and she rewarded his effort . |
| 12 | He raised his eyes towards the clear sky . |
| 13 | Lorton rolled his eyes towards the ceiling . |
| 14 | He slid his eyes at his mother , and then said a little maliciously , ‘ How much will you object if I am cast ? ’ |
| 15 | Ranald shrugged his shoulders up to his ears , and rolled his eyes at Luch . |
| 16 | Willie has had tears in his eyes at Trevino 's performances just once , he maintains : when Lee put his ball out-of-bounds at Wentworth after fighting back to catch Nicklaus in a World Matchplay in the 1970s . |
| 17 | Tears would come to his eyes at the bounty of the poor . |
| 18 | A shameful spew and tears in his eyes at that , the ultimate indignity . |
| 19 | She was still haunted by the look in his eyes at Christmas , and memories of his strong , lean body made her ache with a longing which Nahum 's undignified fumbling would never be able to satisfy . |
| 20 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |
| 21 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 22 | ‘ That good looking ghoul over there just rolled his eyes at me . ’ |
| 23 | Hope felt a heave of sentimental sorrow threaten his eyes at the vision of this brave young girl , on the bleak shore , dead in delivering her child . |
| 24 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 25 | Stephen rolled his eyes at Christina . |
| 26 | And so they depart — on board ship — ( The two SPIES position themselves on either side of the PLAYER , and the three of them sway gently in unison , the motion of a boat ; and then the PLAYER detaches himself. ) — and they arrive — ( One SPY shades his eyes at the horizon. ) — and disembark — and present themselves before the English king- ( He wheels round . ) |
| 27 | He rolled his eyes at the ceiling . |
| 28 | It was Pascoe 's turn to roll his eyes at the heavens . |
| 29 | Cashman leaned forward and narrowed his eyes at Matt . |
| 30 | An observer would have seen a raggedy man with his possessions gathered into a couple of carrier bags , his hair uncombed , and no life in his eyes at all . |