Example sentences of "[vb past] with his eyes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 2 | He lay with his eyes closed , conscious of his own body , conscious of the body in the other room , and the difference now between them . |
| 3 | When it appeared to be over — he 'd stopped breathing so heavily and lay with his eyes closed — she asked him who Stella Maris was . |
| 4 | He sat with his eyes fixed on great breakers rolling on a coral atoll somewhere in the immense Pacific . |
| 5 | He sat with his eyes closed , lifting his head to sing each verse and dropping it again in the silences between the passages . |