Example sentences of "with his eyes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood quite still now , watching her , and she did n't feel quite so bold with his eyes narrowed on her intently , suspicious but interested . |
| 2 | The wind was blowing from the sea and he instinctively opened his wings , leaned round into it and circled up and back , quartering the cliffs around him with his eyes to see what or who was there . |
| 3 | With his eyes flashing , he looked like a black furry guided missile . |
| 4 | He sat with his eyes fixed on great breakers rolling on a coral atoll somewhere in the immense Pacific . |
| 5 | Show respect , ’ said Garvey to Lucie , who was leaning against the corner strut of the stage with his eyes fixed on the far horizon . |
| 6 | He stopped again by the pavilion and , with his eyes fixed on Gabriel and a demented grin on his pock-marked face , rent the golden cloth from bottom to top . |
| 7 | Then , with his eyes fixed on hers , in the light that was shining through to the bed , he gently let the material of her only covering fall down to below her waist . |
| 8 | The boy fell to the ground and lay there with his eyes shut . |
| 9 | He was still there lying down with his eyes shut . |
| 10 | While I admired the figures , Peter kneeled and prayed with his eyes shut . |
| 11 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 12 | And then , that if he could walk with his eyes shut all the way back to the town , it might magick him back . |
| 13 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 14 | He breathed deeply with his eyes shut and I smelt a baked saltiness coming from his jeans and was reminded of Franky . |
| 15 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 16 | I 'm going to lie in bed in the darkness and the music and think I 'm with G.P. and he 's lying over there with his eyes shut and his pitted cheek and his Jew 's nose ; as if he was on his own tomb . |
| 17 | ‘ Please continue , Dr Mortimer , ’ said Holmes , and sat back in his chair with his eyes shut . |
| 18 | Marcus was sitting with his eyes shut . |
| 19 | He lies on his side with his eyes shut and his mouth open . |
| 20 | Simon had once told her how if a Formula One driver blinked during a race it was the same as him driving thirty yards with his eyes shut , and Vitor 's stare was unrelenting . |
| 21 | With a butt of his head he will heal the fissured bathroom mirror , heal also the worsening welt in his own tarnished brow , and then stand there staring at himself with his eyes flickering . |
| 22 | Then it snapped closed , and with his eyes narrowed he inclined his head towards her . |
| 23 | He left The Bar in a hurry , and with his eyes cast right down . |
| 24 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 25 | And here he was with his eyes burning bright . |
| 26 | He awoke one morning with his eyes glued shut from condensed cigarette smoke ; his mother had to prise them open with solution . |
| 27 | He was high in Upper Teesdale , walking with his eyes pinned to the ground . |
| 28 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 29 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 30 | He lay with his eyes closed , conscious of his own body , conscious of the body in the other room , and the difference now between them . |