Example sentences of "their eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 2 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 3 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 4 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 5 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 6 | And their eyes met . |
| 7 | Wariness in their eyes . |
| 8 | You should see their eyes . ’ |
| 9 | The two young McLaggans were taunting and prodding at a trio of hostages , Thomson the constable , Bisset the minister , and the old soldier Major Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre ; they stood in a huddle with their eyes staring , while young McCulloch staggered up to them and shoved stalks of bracken into their hair . |
| 10 | Their eyes followed thy bird as its image shrank and lost itself in space . |
| 11 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 12 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , their eyes gutted of all expression . |
| 13 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 14 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 15 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 16 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 17 | She grabbed Steve 's sleeve , their eyes in unison watched the ball sail through the air and high over the net . |
| 18 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 19 | It is a little sad to see the innocent eagerness and enthusiasm from so many who have stars in their eyes and really believe they are quite good players . |
| 20 | Most astounding are their faces , and their eyes . |
| 21 | The official blurb explains that the plaster figures ‘ stand as if boldly forging ahead , their eyes fixed on our motherland 's beautiful future ’ . |
| 22 | After the failed June 1953 uprising , crushed by Soviet tanks , ‘ people shut their eyes and looked away ’ , said Heiko , a 19-year-old factory worker , after a packed service in the Gethsemane church , in recent weeks a centre of opposition . |
| 23 | In Rio de Janeiro , dead street children have been found trussed in barbed wire , with their eyes gouged out , and even decapitated with a chainsaw . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ A few people had their eyes opened . |
| 25 | People could hardly believe their eyes when they opened their newspapers yesterday morning : alongside the ritual party propaganda there was genuine criticism and complaints . |
| 26 | Some lawyers are typified as ‘ clever ’ , others as ‘ stupid ’ ; the former require one to be cautious , while the latter give greater opportunity for having the wool pulled over their eyes . |
| 27 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 28 | Their eyes were red through lack of sleep and exhaustion . |
| 29 | Paris was the world 's cultural capital in their eyes , but Russia suffered alternately from a deep-rooted inferiority complex , saddled with two cultural capitals looking away from each other towards Asia and Europe ; or from an unstable Messianic superiority complex , derived from Byzantium via Dostoevsky and now resurrected phoenix-like by the Bolsheviks under a new guise . |
| 30 | Gudok pointed out that such an exploit could not be repeated all over Russia , so staff on individual railway lines would have to keep their eyes skinned for military or criminal activity . |