Example sentences of "[pron] eyes [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her last visit I 'd been unable to take my eyes off her gold earrings and her bangles . |
| 2 | by courtesy to keep my eyes on her lipstick . |
| 3 | They stopped talking when Groa entered , and she could feel their eyes on her back as she stood at the window , watching . |
| 4 | She said the word clearly , but still did not raise her eyes to her father 's . |
| 5 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 6 | Ruth was the first to break the contact , lowering her eyes to her coffee-cup . |
| 7 | Ellen sat up in bed , rubbing her eyes with her knuckles like a sleepy child . |
| 8 | His wife Sara , 42 , covered her eyes with her hand and sobbed . |
| 9 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 10 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 11 | She rubbed her eyes with her finger and thumb of her right hand . |
| 12 | Finn opened his arms as if to embrace her but she was still holding the tears in her eyes with her fists . |
| 13 | She squinted against the sun , shielding her eyes with her hand . |
| 14 | Then shielding her eyes with her arm she craned to peer inside . |
| 15 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 16 | She felt choking in her throat , and tears pop from her eyes onto her burning face . |
| 17 | She could n't turn round so she fixed her eyes on her two brothers on the altar . |
| 18 | Daisy wiped her eyes on her sleeve again . |
| 19 | Smearing her eyes on her sleeve she turned to face down her enemies . |
| 20 | And Ruth fixed her eyes on her mother . |
| 21 | ‘ How did you know about the coffee ? ’ she asked , keeping her eyes on her plate . |
| 22 | My Sister was at Sandy , but up to her eyes in her work with the Maquis . |
| 23 | She crossed the dinosaur gallery , carefully averting her eyes from her own display , unlocked the solid door and arrived in the security and peace of her own office . |
| 24 | The girl scowls as she raises her eyes from her book entitled Human Development . |
| 25 | Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking . |
| 26 | What about , for example — ’ and she cast her eyes around her assembly , seeing reprieve , in the approaching form of Edgar Lintot , her first husband , ‘ what about Edgar ? |
| 27 | ‘ I know , ’ said McAllister , closing her eyes against her own unwanted memories . |
| 28 | She thought she could feel his eyes on her legs . |
| 29 | All the time she was conscious of his eyes on her lips , her teeth , the way her mouth closed over the small cake , touching the tips of his fingers as it did so . |
| 30 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |