Example sentences of "for [pron] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the duty doctor to give her a blood test , for my eyes only . |
| 2 | ‘ Even if they are n't for my eyes , ’ he had added with a twinkle . |
| 3 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 4 | The dress was white and covered me all over except for my eyes . |
| 5 | And afterwards , Jay started her own diary , for her eyes only . |
| 6 | A poem for her eyes only , a poem she liked . |
| 7 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 8 | It took seconds for her eyes to adjust to the darkness . |
| 9 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 10 | She was not asleep for her eyes were staring contentedly about her . |
| 11 | She lay on a bed on the verandah by her daughter 's door , asleep but for her eyes , which were open . |
| 12 | Lucenzo 's hands curved into her waist , holding her firmly against him , the masculine sensuality of his mouth a terrible focus for her eyes . |
| 13 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 14 | With no use for its eyes , it has lost its sight and yet it manages to locate shelter , a mate , and even food . |
| 15 | And yes , I did make gingerbread men with currants for their eyes , did n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
| 17 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 18 | It took seconds for his eyes to adjust to the gloom . |
| 19 | The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude . |
| 20 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 21 | Suckled on shadows ; weaned , as it were , on webs of ritual : for his ears , echoes , for his eyes , a labyrinth of stone : and yet within his body something other — other than this umbrageous legacy . |
| 22 | Some of it explicit , the rest hidden teasingly away — cyphers within cyphers — as if for his eyes alone . |
| 23 | Externally , Bissell appeared normal , with little sign of metamorphosis — except for his eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 25 | Except for his eyes , of course . |
| 26 | Afraid for his eyes , Gabriel froze , like a hare picked up by its ears . |
| 27 | Craved for his eyes in its solitude . |
| 28 | He closed his eyes wearily , but his eyelids acted only as shutters for his eyes , not his mind . |
| 29 | Er for me eyes . |
| 30 | For your eyes only |