Example sentences of "eyes [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | for those first few weeks we could n't keep our eyes off each other . |
2 | It was true , but then he never could take his eyes off any woman . |
3 | But do n't take your eyes off those Australians . |
4 | ‘ Do n't any of you move an inch from here and do n't take your eyes off those bundles . |
5 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
6 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
7 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
8 | No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly . |
9 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
10 | His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself . |
11 | He went rigid , his head lifting as he stared into her eyes for one brief moment that held all eternity within it . |
12 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
13 | ‘ I can think of one firm that I think had tried to pull the wool over our eyes for many years . |
14 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
15 | Even so , a perfectly-sighted Ted can suffer with streaming eyes for several reasons during the fall , so best play safe and make him some goggles from a pop bottle , as shown opposite . |
16 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
17 | ‘ I keep telling you , it 's not the heating , ’ said Angalo , straining his eyes for any sign of a descending Ship . |
18 | Riven searched his blue eyes for any hidden meanings , but they were closed to him . |
19 | I blink my eyes for some inkling of orientation , but the high-pitched multi-signals whine and cascade about in my head just to make things quite clear that they 're not going to be harassed into full-powered service tonight . |
20 | The Special Branch man could n't believe his eyes as all our clobber went into the plane at Elstree . |
21 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
22 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
23 | They laugh , pointing their tongues out like flirty little snakes , flashing the whites of their eyes through dense make-up . |
24 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
25 | The agony of An Outcast of the Islands is heightened by several occasions when the meeting of eyes between those who have been in love is one of terrifying intensity . |
26 | Lucien could not look into Jeopardy 's eyes after that , and the practice went badly . |
27 | How do you find my sailor eyes after all this time ? |
28 | Miguel DuHamel ( left ) wipes the sweat from his eyes after another gruelling Bol d'Or stint on the Suzuki factory GSX-R750 |
29 | In the eyes of that generation of students he gave Liberalism a magic , a faith in the future . |
30 | The Judaeo-Christian influence introduced the notions of a single God and of man 's equality in the eyes of that God . |