Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pos pn] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 3 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 4 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 5 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 6 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 9 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 10 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 11 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 12 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 13 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 14 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 15 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 16 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 17 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 24 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 30 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |