Example sentences of "[adj] eyes seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The northern , pale-blue eyes seemed to be everywhere , and he was reputed to have a remarkable instinct for knowing whom to praise and whom to blame . |
| 2 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 3 | Her skin was tight across her ivory face and although one suspected that the tautness was maintained by a beauty parlour , it did n't lessen the harmony of the face , in which brown eyes seemed bigger than they really were , like a sun at sunset . |
| 4 | His brown eyes seemed to be saying things again , things she wanted to hear him speak . |
| 5 | After describing an examination which is taken at the end of schooling ( compulsory schooling ends at 16 , but just over half stay at school till 17 ) and which to British eyes seems remarkably casual , the HMI team observes : |
| 6 | For one fleeting moment the dark eyes seemed to dance . |
| 7 | The dark eyes seemed to soften . |
| 8 | The dark eyes seemed to flay her alive . |
| 9 | Then the dark eyes seemed to darken . |
| 10 | Guido paused and the dark eyes seemed to pounce on her suddenly . |
| 11 | She had not meant that , Ashley thought frantically , at least not in the way his husky intonation was making it sound , not how the look in his dark eyes seemed to imply . |
| 12 | He glanced across at her , his dark eyes seeming to linger . |
| 13 | His ice-blue eyes seemed to touch her every feature , one by one . |
| 14 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 15 | Even in death their lips were curled in a snarl ; their wizened faces and staring , blank eyes seemed to gloat over the evil they had planned . |
| 16 | He stared at Alexei , and the pupils in his amber eyes seemed to expand , then contract again . |
| 17 | In one corner stood a case of stuffed fish whose glassy eyes seemed to gaze with malevolence at the newcomers . |
| 18 | He nodded , and his grey-green eyes seemed to grow darker as he scanned her , below him , looking up at him , his gaze travelling quickly over her face to her breasts ; she brought an arm up involuntarily , to shield herself from his looking . |
| 19 | A teenage couple whose baby was taken to hospital with bruises and bleeding eyes seemed unconcerned when told he might die , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 20 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 21 | The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors . |
| 22 | His sombre eyes seemed to address each individual personally , in the way that a schoolmaster delivers a final warning to wayward pupils . |
| 23 | ‘ Only ten ! ’ his big , grey eyes seemed to say . |
| 24 | Stared and stared — and her grey eyes seemed to grow larger and brighter . |
| 25 | Ruth could imagine him at sale rooms , carefully handling dusty china , gently touching worn , cracked furniture , grey eyes seeming to question himself inwardly as he gazed ; he would rarely fail , she thought , in spotting what was truly valuable . |
| 26 | Fitzosbert 's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like . |
| 27 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 28 | Why ? his small beady eyes seemed to be saying , What did I do ? |
| 29 | Michele 's silvery-green eyes seemed to look straight into her brain , and for what seemed minutes , but could only have been split-seconds , Luce stood paralysed , before shaking her head . |
| 30 | Margaret 's big green eyes seemed to have taken possession of the whole of her face . |