Example sentences of "could not [verb] her 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 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 5 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 8 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 9 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |