Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 2 | I shook my head and lowered my eyes . |
| 3 | He got my eyes , not my colouring but he 's fairly blinky is n't he , watching the telly , well I am anyway and |
| 4 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 5 | An even more welcome sight met my eyes . |
| 6 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 7 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 8 | It made my eyes close , every time I thought about it . |
| 9 | I wiped my eyes and felt a bit better , knowing that Granny was taking my message with her to heaven . |
| 10 | He avoided my eyes . |
| 11 | I left the wheelbarrow , stood on a bulge of rock and shielded my eyes . |
| 12 | What caught my eyes were its maps . |
| 13 | ‘ grievously tormented with house-keepers … letting the Bible fall open of itself , I fixed my eyes immediately on these words , ‘ When my son was entered into the wedding chamber , he fell down and died . |
| 14 | I sang quite loudly to rise above the noise of the cars , and fixed my eyes on Anna , walking among the tables with her straw hat ready for coins . |
| 15 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 16 | Not knowing then what a polyp was , I still found my eyes welling up with tears of relief . |
| 17 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 18 | I clenched my eyes . |
| 19 | She strained her eyes , searching , but today she could not persuade herself that there were any seals out there . |
| 20 | Then she strained her eyes . |
| 21 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 22 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 23 | Tears clouded her eyes as she remembered those dark days , but she blinked them away . |
| 24 | Black jeans encased his tautly muscled legs , a black sweater outlined the breadth of his shoulders and drew her eyes down to the firmly tapering waist . |
| 25 | She sighed angrily , then narrowed her eyes into slits and stared at Buddie 's broad back . |
| 26 | Jahsaxa narrowed her eyes meaningfully at her in-house security officers . |
| 27 | She narrowed her eyes and Nathan shrugged , embarrassed . |
| 28 | Elinor narrowed her eyes and swung her straight black hair out behind her like a scarf . |
| 29 | Elinor narrowed her eyes . |
| 30 | Kelly narrowed her eyes with mock suspicion . |