Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set , widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows , a well-shaped , rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon . |
| 2 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 3 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 4 | Isabel smiled back waveringly through suddenly brimming eyes . |
| 5 | All these setbacks did n't matter , old chap , because the referee only has eyes for the big boys . |
| 6 | And the astonishingly big calf coming out with a slippery rush and then , a few minutes later , standing up in the straw on its thin , wobbly legs , its thickly lashed eyes mild and brown like its mother 's . |
| 7 | For the first time she risked a glance at that dark Renaissance face with its clear-cut features and winged brows , the beautiful , thickly lashed eyes and chiselled mouth , the cleft chin and strong jaw . |
| 8 | She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’ |
| 9 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 10 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 11 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 12 | Wide-open , constantly moving eyes signal nervousness and alertness . |
| 13 | In amphisbaenians , well adapted to their burrowing lives , with vestigial or non-existent limbs and much reduced eyes , the skull is very heavily ossified and box-like to enable it to be rammed through the soil , and so the orbitosphenoid is a thick plate of bone . |
| 14 | ‘ I will only have eyes for you . ’ |
| 15 | Oh yes , she 'd better have eyes , he reflects , with a weary courtesy . |
| 16 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 17 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 18 | Once in Amedeo 's company everyone agrees that she ‘ only had eyes for him ’ . |
| 19 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 20 | No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly . |
| 21 | Any visiting player who was foolish enough to make eyes at Perdita , or disparaging cracks about Little Chef 's appearance , got very short shrift . |
| 22 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
| 23 | He who sees has not got eyes , |
| 24 | You know what it 's like to part wi' your grandchild , to know there 'll be others you 'll not set eyes on ? |
| 25 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 26 | He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood . |
| 27 | Some of the miniature waterlilies have to be increased from seed as they do not produce eyes . |
| 28 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 29 | Now I comes to think on it , I 've not set eyes on Black Will since afore we went to the Garden Tower last evening . ’ |
| 30 | I 've not set eyes on her since I got back . ’ |