Example sentences of "eye as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tears in the girls ' eyes as they tried to smile back . |
| 2 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |
| 3 | Tears filled her eyes as she described seeing him looking down on her . |
| 4 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 6 | Pursing her lips thoughtfully , she half closed her eyes as she tried to visualise how it might look . |
| 7 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 8 | For a boss , in fact , he was a very human man , who had hardly tried to hide the tears behind his eyes as he had stepped into the Mercedes earlier . |
| 9 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |
| 10 | But she knew she had seen that covetous look in his eyes as he had watched her . |
| 11 | Sarella recalled the smouldering look of desire in his eyes as he 'd kissed her . |
| 12 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 13 | There was a dark look in his eyes as he continued to look down at her , but as she proceeded to wriggle away from him he made no move to stop her . |
| 14 | Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac . |
| 15 | He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles . |
| 16 | Screwing up his eyes as he attempted to remember what Rose had said . |
| 17 | The college caretaker was shot in the eye as he went to help . |
| 18 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 19 | And the glint in his eye as he had enjoyed her earlier discomfiture convinced her he would not miss such an opportunity to embarrass her further . |
| 20 | She paused , imagining the scene in her mind 's eye as she had done so many times before , trying to picture her mother as a young girl , still in the fresh-faced bloom of youth . |