Example sentences of "could not [verb] my eyes [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 2 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 3 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 4 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 5 | ‘ I just could n't believe my eyes when I opened the box and a small white West Highland Terrier looking up at me . |