Example sentences of "his eyes be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only knows that he needs air and ca n't get it ; a state evinced by his terminal boredom , and by single sovereign descriptive strokes like the fact that his eyes are ‘ a little too blue ’ leaving the reader to imagine a pair of empty summer-sky souls , very bright and staring in pain . |
| 2 | His eyes are wide as he gazes around in a kind of apprehension . |
| 3 | ‘ His eyes are a very nice color , ’ Isobel said , still staring at the sleeping baby . |
| 4 | His eyes are pinpoints , surely the smallest in any Modigliani portrait , as if to reveal to us the man 's utter lack of vision . |
| 5 | To look at large numbers of photographs of him , most of them unposed , is revealing : his eyes are always concentrating on someone or something , never bored or inattentively gazing . |
| 6 | ‘ His eyes are sharp and piercing , his nose well formed , his beard reddish , his lips fine and not pulled out of shape by too long a mouth . |
| 7 | His eyes are |
| 8 | His eyes are black and somewhat small , and he does peep so queerly with them ! |
| 9 | Those bags under his eyes are his suitcases — not mine . |
| 10 | His three heads represent the past , present and future ; his spittle poisons and burns the earth ; he has a mane of snakes and a serpent 's tail ; his eyes are watchful and his ears are constantly pricked , listening for newcomers as he admits the dead and devours the still-living . |
| 11 | His eyes are like the over-tired eyes of an engraver |
| 12 | His eyes are fixed on hers as if he is trying to outstare her . |
| 13 | HIS cheeks are tear-stained and his eyes are hungry , but his face , for now , is focused on the hope he holds in his hands . |
| 14 | His eyes are bloodshot . |
| 15 | Turning to a school photograph next to the oak coffin , he added : ‘ We look into his eyes on that wonderful photograph but his eyes are still . |
| 16 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 17 | His eyes are a brighter green than they seem . |
| 18 | But his eyes are averted and this combined with the sudden dwindling of scale conveys the sense that the sitter is both immediately present and unobtainable . |
| 19 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
| 20 | His eyes are bulging , he is wheezing , making awful sounds . |
| 21 | His eyes are fixed on you and you know , you just know that he 's about to spring . |
| 22 | His eyes are popping and sweat stands out on his skin . |
| 23 | Andy goes limp but then moves weakly ; the man is breathing very hard and when he looks at me his eyes are wide and staring . |
| 24 | His eyes are half-open . |
| 25 | But his eyes are mad . |
| 26 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 27 | When he 's on the job , his eyes are tight shut throughout so my undies are lost on him . ’ |
| 28 | His eyes are different . |
| 29 | His eyes are very big and dark , and his body is always moving … ’ |
| 30 | I hold him up like he was an old coat at a jumble sale , and his eyes are like a frightened rabbit . |