Example sentences of "his eyes [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake closed his eyes but kept being kicked by the Doctor , attempting to escape from his bonds . |
| 2 | Bobo was watching Donaldson , not attempting to meet his eyes but reading his body and his posture instead . |
| 3 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 4 | She looked back at him , but this time he did not lower his eyes or tap his spoon against his empty cup . |
| 5 | Matthew Wilder rose to his feet as they approached the corner table , and instead of shutting his eyes or turning away he scrutinised Lucy with interest . |
| 6 | ‘ This man ’ — she took John 's arm — ‘ could shut his eyes and walk yard by yard in his mind-down any line he 's built . |
| 7 | Ecstasy increased as Robyn looked deep into his eyes and heard the words she had hardly dared hoped for . |
| 8 | He closed his eyes and listened . |
| 9 | He half-closed his eyes and listened to plopping sounds in the water for the place swarmed with frogs , and the buzz of the bees as they hunted for honey amongst the flowers . |
| 10 | Ho opened his eyes and rubbed at his throat . |
| 11 | He closed his eyes and went back to sleep . |
| 12 | Duncan sat back , shut his eyes and went over what the policeman had said . |
| 13 | It was then that she looked into his eyes and went cold with shock . |
| 14 | He closed his eyes and went through in detail what he would like to do to the curly-haired tart . |
| 15 | He closed his eyes and waited for the pupils to widen . |
| 16 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 17 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 18 | Then she saw the look of steely determination in his eyes and knew he was more than capable of it . |
| 19 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 20 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 21 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 22 | Mann sat back on his chair , closed his eyes and began to dream . |
| 23 | One pellet lodged between his eyes and became a permanent dimple . |
| 24 | He stood blinking against the effect of the lights on his eyes and felt the apprehension disappear under a new wave of feeling — anger . |
| 25 | Robyn saw the sexy curve of his mouth , the sparkle in his eyes and felt her body automatically respond . |
| 26 | She looked into his eyes and felt herself drowning . |
| 27 | He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have . |
| 28 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 29 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 30 | Only then did she raise her head , meeting his eyes and holding them . |