Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly smiled politely as the man tried to focus his eyes on her . |
| 2 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 3 | He wore nothing but a towel and although she tried to keep her eyes upon his chest a line of damp , curling hair drew them inexorably downwards . |
| 4 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 5 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 6 | He tried to keep his eyes on her face as she examined him thoroughly , declared him fit , warned him to take it easy for a day or two and to drink sparingly because of the risk of delayed shock . |
| 7 | I think he had his eyes , he 'd got his eyes on Tettron replacing |
| 8 | There 's an Antiques Fair this week just along Park End Street , and I 'd got my eye on a little set of drawers , yew-wood veneer . |
| 9 | ‘ We walked into this shop in Denmark Street , ’ relates Niall Linehan , ‘ with the intention of buying a spare guitar , and I 'd had my eye on this Gibson Les Paul hanging on the wall there . |
| 10 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 11 | They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me . |
| 12 | And the relieved mum vowed to keep her eye on the ‘ little devil ’ from now on . |
| 13 | He said he was sorry and normally obeyed all the driving rules , but this time failed to keep his eye on the speedometer as he made his way to Birmingham . |
| 14 | Toby decided to keep his eye on Hilary Frome . |
| 15 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 16 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 17 | When he managed to turn his eyes from them he saw Liessa glaring down at him in fury . |
| 18 | But nothing came and a little before dawn the wind eased and he managed to close his eyes in the shelter of the old oak tree in which he had taken stance . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be silly ; you know nothing about my career , pursued or otherwise , and I wish you 'd go away , ’ she added peevishly as she finally managed to drag her eyes from the grey warmth of his . |
| 20 | ‘ You wanted to meet me , Mr Burns , ’ she finally managed to rescue her eyes from the drowning pull of his and locate her voice . |
| 21 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 22 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 23 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 24 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 25 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 26 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 27 | Steve continued to fix his eye on me before adding finally , ‘ Because I 've got nothing to say . ’ |
| 28 | After the audience had accustomed their eyes to the flash , they beheld a subtle and beautiful sight . |
| 29 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 30 | And all this while , from behind her mourning veil , she had fixed her eyes on the inner door , and watched for revelations from within . |