Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother , flighty as a butterfly , had heaved a sigh of relief at getting rid of a whole entrenched family along with Maitre Henri Rossignol , who still , perhaps , coloured Charlotte 's image of the law , and made Mr Stanforth incongruous , with his pricked ears and his mild , perilous , goatish hazel eyes . |
| 2 | Do you know what er soothes sore eyes and that , and it 's an old fashioned remedy |
| 3 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 4 | His wife , with auburn hair and laughing hazel eyes , was at least ten years younger and was also , it seemed , an archaeologist . |
| 5 | An alert cat has fully-opened eyes and this is the condition that is always maintained in the presence of strangers , who are not entirely trusted by the cat . |
| 6 | She fawned over Horatia as if the latter were of the blood royal , her say brown eyes sliding away from his whenever he looked at her . |
| 7 | Sid 's soft , wide spaced brown eyes looked at her , betraying his obvious affection . |
| 8 | I may also add , in passing , that Miller has brown eyes whereas I have blue , black hair where mine is red , good eyesight whereas I am a little shortsighted . |
| 9 | Also known as Brown Men of the Moors or Muirs , these DWARVES have red hair , brown skin and twinkling brown eyes . |
| 10 | First one sees a pretty , bronzed model clad in strapless dark crimson : she has aquamarine eyes ( statutory in this novel , apart from two which are grape-green ) and a large , open mouth . |
| 11 | She saw him flick ice-blue eyes over her slender figure and immediately felt a surge of self-consciousness . |
| 12 | And he has pretty eyes , you should n't say that of a man , perhaps . |
| 13 | I vow she has speaking eyes ! |
| 14 | Raquel Welch has frantic eyes while Kate O'Mara 's are lost in some dream . |
| 15 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 16 | It looked over its shoulder at her with twinkling red eyes . |
| 17 | To hide red eyes ? |
| 18 | Close-set yellow eyes glared from under angry ‘ eyebrows ’ and pronounced facial discs , and its whole demeanour was threatening . |
| 19 | If she has deep-set eyes her porte feminine is bound to be deep too … if a woman has a pair of big , sparkling eyes , her porte feminine is narrow at its entrance , and yet roomy in the inner part … |
| 20 | He had a thick crop of wiry hair the colour of good toffee , and heavy eyelashes many shades darker , as lavish as on a Jersey cow , fringing golden-brown eyes of such steady and limpid sincerity that she felt certain he could not possibly be just what he seemed . |
| 21 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 22 | But as she looked into Jake 's face and his condemning blue eyes she was overcome by a rush of indignation . |
| 23 | She winced and lifted enormous , misted blue eyes to his . |
| 24 | Leicester 's tacklers , unwisely , were keeping anxious eyes on Carling and Halliday in midfield as Pears measured his options . |
| 25 | She fastened swollen eyes on Ariel . |
| 26 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 27 | Xanthe likes this bit , she has blue eyes and fancies they 're like the sky . |
| 28 | ‘ My dad has blue eyes and black hair . |
| 29 | ‘ He has blue eyes , quite bright blue . |
| 30 | ‘ She did tell me she has sensitive eyes . |