Example sentences of "eye [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny red eyes gleamed at her for a moment before disappearing . |
| 2 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 3 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 4 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 5 | His eyes sparked at her like firecrackers . |
| 6 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 7 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 8 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 9 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 10 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 11 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 12 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 13 | Two grey eyes looked at him through tears and he suddenly grinned , his eyes dancing . |
| 14 | Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged . |
| 15 | His voice was quiet , matter-of-fact and kind , and his eyes smiled at her with interest and curiosity , she thought , beyond the mere charm he must use by native grace upon all who came near him and were weaker than he . |
| 16 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 17 | To look across and see that gorgeous smile , find those brilliant eyes burning at you with desire and love , instead of derision and mockery . |
| 18 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 19 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 20 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |