Example sentences of "[noun] whose eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a squeal , a scantily clad girl whose eyes were twice the normal human size scampered out , to be caught by one of those guards and led away . |
| 2 | The ‘ sight ’ episode of Supersense ( the sequel of which , Lifesense , begins this month on BBC1 ) had a four-eyed fish whose eyes are divided so it can simultaneously watch above the water for predators and below the water for prey ; the woodcock which has developed 360 degree ‘ wraparound ’ vision ; bees which see colours in flowers man can not and a map of the sky from which to navigate . |
| 3 | The place took no bookings , and knew of no Mr Sixsmith , and was serving many midday breakfasts to swearing persons whose eyes bulged over mugs of flesh-coloured tea . |
| 4 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 5 | On to these pictures we attach behavioural predictions — attractive people are more able , but attractive women are perceived ( by men ) to be less intelligent ; fat people are lazy or jolly ; people whose eyes are close together are dishonest ; and so on . |
| 6 | Normal cats have the distribution shown at the left , cats deprived of vision in the contralateral eye during the first three months of life have the distribution shown in the middle , and cats whose eyes were misaligned as a result of surgery have the distribution shown at the right . |
| 7 | Happy is that man whose eyes have tides like the sea and are drawn by a mystic moon . |
| 8 | Ferguson was a man whose eyes were constantly on the future , but he would probably have approved , nonetheless , of the historical purpose of the evening . |
| 9 | There were too many creepy corners and badly lit corridors peopled with portraits of long-dead ancestors whose eyes followed her unnervingly . |
| 10 | Old ladies with thick stockings holding veins like knots of worms , and men whose eyes are duller than clay alleys dream other dreams and watched the numbered screen , killing time , hoping for a win . |
| 11 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 12 | The peace which is on the face of a sleeping child is not the same as the peace on a face whose eyes are closed in prayer . |
| 13 | A mother whose eyes and gestures were seductively alive . |