Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] eyes [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without holstering his gun , or taking his eyes off the glimmering phenomenon , Bishop dragged the little man from the chamber and threw him bodily into the Pit . |
| 2 | All without lifting a finger or taking your eyes off the traffic for one moment . |
| 3 | Open Channel D for the Man From Uncle pilot film TO TRAP A SPY , sympathise with Ribsgy 's lodger-stroke-offspring problems in another ancient RISING DAMP , don your spangly cod-piece when Erasure go IN CONCERT or boggle your eyes at the whizzy visuals of schlockfest movie FX — MURDER BY ILLUSION . |
| 4 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 5 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 6 | He did not budge as Mr Gubb raised the cane above his shoulder and fixed his eyes on the boy 's fingers with the concentration of a golfer addressing his ball . |
| 7 | My blaster , ’ she said , backing towards a wall and keeping her eyes on the widening gap between the doors . |
| 8 | It is through patient persuasive reasoning together with voluntary suffering that the satyāgrahi must seek to melt the heart of his opponent and open his eyes to the truth . |
| 9 | She looked abruptly away and turned her eyes to the small villages they sped through , pretty places with interesting-looking shops . |
| 10 | Stand in front of a mirror on one leg and watch your eyes in the mirror . |
| 11 | But what else is trapped in your ebony and ivory throat and troubling your eyes to the brim of tears ? ’ |
| 12 | Charsky leaned back against the pillows and raised his eyes to the ceiling as if thanking the Almighty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He remembered the feel of her tears on his own face , and covered his eyes in the Caffè Gambrinus ; in shame for all those years ago when he had provoked such outrage in her , but in sweetness too , for jealousy was a sign of love , every woman knew that . |
| 15 | He moaned aloud and rolled his eyes to the ceiling . |
| 16 | He swallowed hard and tore his eyes from the girl . |
| 17 | The passenger in the railway carriage would drop his head into his newspaper and avert his eyes from the window . |
| 18 | ‘ Something like that , ’ he said , and she fell sideways onto his lap and shut her eyes against the whirling room , her cheek stuck to the little glass circle of the monocle balanced on his chest . |
| 19 | Customers from a nearby public house washed her face and bathed her eyes after the attack . |
| 20 | He crouched before the bookcase and ran his eyes along the tightly packed , fading broken spines of familiar paperbacks , reading names and titles . |
| 21 | Leaning over the side and straining her eyes in the pre-dawn light , she scanned the sea . |
| 22 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 23 | On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead . |
| 24 | Richard shook his head and closed his eyes against the pain his memories brought . |
| 25 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 26 | The boy , however , took no notice of her but raised his eyes to the bottles on the shelves and said , ‘ Acid drops . ’ |
| 27 | He did n't answer right away but kept his eyes on the rear-view mirror . |