Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
| 2 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 3 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 4 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 5 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 6 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 7 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 8 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 9 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 11 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 12 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 13 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 14 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 15 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 16 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 17 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 18 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 19 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 20 | My men could hardly take their eyes off them . ’ |
| 21 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 22 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 23 | Try as she might , she could n't stop her eyes from straying back in his direction time and time again , and every time they had it was to see that same unfathomable look on his face . |
| 24 | Mike took one look at her furious face , and Ace 's flabbergasted one , and put up a hand to hide his mouth , but he could n't stop his eyes from dancing with amusement . |
| 25 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 26 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 27 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 28 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 29 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 30 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |