Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , she could n't open her eyes . |
| 2 | I woke up yesterday morning , I could n't open my eyes ! |
| 3 | Try as she might , she could n't stop her eyes from straying back in his direction time and time again , and every time they had it was to see that same unfathomable look on his face . |
| 4 | Mike took one look at her furious face , and Ace 's flabbergasted one , and put up a hand to hide his mouth , but he could n't stop his eyes from dancing with amusement . |
| 5 | The telegraph boy , though , could n't meet her eyes . |
| 6 | She faced him calmly , her head high , though she could n't meet his eyes . |
| 7 | She could n't meet his eyes , the expression in them was too intense . |
| 8 | In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she could n't drag her eyes away . |
| 9 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 10 | A girl could n't close her eyes and ears to it , but she could keep herself pure . |
| 11 | He could n't close his eyes . |
| 12 | That night I could n't close my eyes , the slightest creaking of the furniture announcing the imminent arrival of the undead . |
| 13 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 14 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 15 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 16 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 17 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 18 | Defries , Daak and Ace could n't take their eyes from it as the shuttle took them inexorably towards it and it grew across the window . |
| 19 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 20 | As Janet Baker , the singer , wrote , about going to hear her colleague Lena Horne perform : ‘ We could n't take our eyes off her , she has the charisma , the beauty , which comes from great discipline ’ ( Full Circle , Penguin , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 22 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 23 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 24 | I could n't take my eyes off her as she swivelled to rinse the mud from her legs , then flexed her arms , swept back her hair to shake it , and the motion rippled through her body . |
| 25 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 26 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 27 | And her husband could n't take his eyes off her . |
| 28 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 29 | Major Nogin was looking expectantly towards our table and Ralph Pike could n't take his eyes off the major . |
| 30 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |