Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wear contact lenses and find that eye make-up , particularly mascara , irritates my eyes . |
| 2 | And while I can understand certain people saying that yes , smoking irritates my eyes , my nose , and yes , they 're quite right they are entitled to breathe erm u u unsolid air , if yo if you want to put it that |
| 3 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 4 | I shook my head and lowered my eyes . |
| 5 | He got my eyes , not my colouring but he 's fairly blinky is n't he , watching the telly , well I am anyway and |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think my eyes are sinking ? ’ |
| 7 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 8 | An even more welcome sight met my eyes . |
| 9 | " Just resting my eyes . |
| 10 | Just resting my eyes … |
| 11 | And resting my eyes does n't have much to do with it , I 'm sure , but I 'm darn well going to rest them anyway . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was just resting my eyes . ’ |
| 13 | And my , my granddad was telling me to see my eyes . |
| 14 | I raise my eyes to heaven and scream for mercy . |
| 15 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 16 | However , as one speechreader said to me , ‘ By using my eyes , I often find my way around large terminals and airports much more easily than my friends who can hear and who are automatically inclined to rely on announcements . ’ |
| 17 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 18 | It made my eyes close , every time I thought about it . |
| 19 | No they make my eyes go funny . |
| 20 | I wiped my eyes and felt a bit better , knowing that Granny was taking my message with her to heaven . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I 'm afraid it will hurt my eyes too much . ’ |
| 22 | He blew cigarette smoke to sting my eyes . |
| 23 | He avoided my eyes . |
| 24 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 25 | I left the wheelbarrow , stood on a bulge of rock and shielded my eyes . |
| 26 | I did that by averting my eyes and crossing the road quickly , almost tripping over a chestnut-seller at the entrance to St Christopher 's Place . |
| 27 | What caught my eyes were its maps . |
| 28 | Opening my eyes I saw that Rozanov had pitched to the floor . |
| 29 | On opening my eyes I did n't dare to imagine that this would have worked . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ I sighed , opening my eyes as a series of splashes announced another chaotic event on the spillway . |