Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] eye to " in BNC.

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1 She said the word clearly , but still did not raise her eyes to her father 's .
2 He did not raise his eyes to Melanie but stared at the backs of his hands .
3 Dalziel laughed but did n't turn his eyes to the speaker .
4 She hesitated then raised her eyes to his again .
5 A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made .
6 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 .
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