Example sentences of "[conj] his eyes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I see , ’ I said nervously , watching as he smacked his lips for fire to stream from his mouth , the top of his head to fly upwards on a jet of steam or his eyes to turn into Catherine wheels . |
| 2 | The year before , 1820 , Joss had had an accident with gunpowder , which , although his eyes escaped injury , disfigured his face , so that he looked ‘ like an old man of 60 . ’ |
| 3 | And although his eyes did n't seem to move the prickle of her skin sensed that he had n't missed a thing , from the mass of dark hair which was now half-up and half-down , to the crazy oranges-and-lemons earrings which she 'd clipped on because — well , just because it was Saturday and sunny , and because she had felt like it . |
| 4 | His pupils were so enlarged that his eyes looked black . |
| 5 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 6 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 7 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 8 | She looked at Rourke , and saw that his eyes had narrowed on her , glimmering faintly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've lived as I wanted to live , ’ she assured him breathlessly , unable to look away now that his eyes had captured hers . |
| 10 | She then noticed that his eyes had narrowed while surveying her critically , and she heard his next words with apprehension . |
| 11 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 12 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 13 | But it was upwards , up to the sky and the heavens , the clouds and rain that his eyes reached and there , lay a blurred outline of saltire , vague and dismembered , random and partially obscured . |
| 14 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 15 | The final insult is that he has not only forfeited his ‘ honest faith ’ in taking up with her but that his eyes have even deceived him about her beauty : she is ‘ foul ’ in every sense . |
| 16 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 17 | Once his eyes became accustomed to the gloom he was able to make out the double curve of the banister as it snaked from the dark first-floor landing into the inky blackness of the main stairwell . |
| 18 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 19 | ‘ Who the hell … ? ’ he began , and his eyes widened with shock . |
| 20 | He was suddenly aware of the coldness beneath his chin and his eyes widened in shocked realisation . |
| 21 | She described the Americans on the moon , satellites and space travel , and his eyes widened with delighted wonder , like a child 's , as he said : ‘ You 're pulling my leg . |
| 22 | Claudia cried out , and his eyes widened at the shock mirrored on her face . |
| 23 | The Prophet 's gaze switched to it and his eyes widened as he saw what it was by the light of the moon . |
| 24 | She stole a glance at him ; his features matched the ice in his tone and his eyes surpassed it . |
| 25 | He appeared sad for a moment , but then his neck stiffened and his eyes grew harder . |
| 26 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 27 | And he lifted his head and his eyes saw my eyes and he smiled . |
| 28 | His head came up from the bin , and his eyes looked like little flames of candle . |
| 29 | His face was hot , and his eyes looked unhappy . |
| 30 | For a moment his face held its expression of ecstatic agony , then it crumpled and his eyes looked down , widening , horrified by what he had done . |