Example sentences of "could not take [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 2 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 5 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 6 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 7 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 8 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 9 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 10 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 11 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 12 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 13 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 14 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 15 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 18 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 24 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 25 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 29 | And her husband could n't take his eyes off her . |
| 30 | Major Nogin was looking expectantly towards our table and Ralph Pike could n't take his eyes off the major . |