Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] her eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 3 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 4 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 5 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 8 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 9 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 15 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |