Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her eyes [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've coloured hair lots of times , ’ Mandy muttered , not removing her eyes from the binoculars she had screwed into them . |
| 5 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 6 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 7 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 8 | ‘ How did it look ? ’ she asked Morris , not taking her eyes off the screen . |
| 9 | Jess spoke fiercely , not taking her eyes from the raddled face , daring her to deny it . |
| 10 | The little man 's hand shot out again and Caroline quickly raised her eyes to the ceiling . |
| 11 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 12 | Her short blonde hair whipping round her face in the breeze , Ronni turned back to fix her eyes on the jetty , which was drawing ever closer as Jeff 's motor boat approached it , and focused with growing interest on the imposing tall , dark figure who stood there in the bright Sardinian sunshine . |
| 13 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 14 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 15 | Sighing , she lifted the dustbin lid and watched the brown china pieces slip from the shovel , then raised her eyes to the May sky . |
| 16 | Dolly viewed her mutton chop , mashed potatoes and spring greens , then cast her eyes over the table , spread with a plain white cloth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She hurriedly diverted her eyes towards the sea to hide her sudden confusion . |
| 20 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |