Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pos pn] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , if speakers did not avert their eyes during the planning ( hesitant ) phases in their speech , there was a marked increase in speech disturbances . |
| 2 | Rigoberta Menchu : We should not avert our eyes from her struggle |
| 3 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 4 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 5 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 6 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 7 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 8 | Two acting notes for Frank : Less is more — do not shift your eyes at the audience so much , stare them down once every scene ; when in doubt about what to say next do not keep ad-libbing about Harry . |
| 9 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 11 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 12 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 13 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 14 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 15 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
| 16 | But she did not take her eyes from Riven . |
| 17 | He spoke slowly to the children and did not take his eyes off them as he spoke . |
| 18 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 19 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 20 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 21 | He did not take his eyes off me . |
| 22 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 23 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 24 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 25 | Dr Ali did not take his eyes off his face . |
| 26 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 27 | The four-foot-long nozzle is heavy for me and hard to hold level , but I do not take my eyes off the spider . |
| 28 | In conversation , people do not fix their eyes on you and make notes : they are informal and natural , while talks are set piece , formal occasions . |
| 29 | She said the word clearly , but still did not raise her eyes to her father 's . |
| 30 | He did not raise his eyes to Melanie but stared at the backs of his hands . |