Example sentences of "eyes [coord] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 2 | Kate shut her eyes and screamed until he let her go . |
| 3 | Yes , Mar Mark wanted you to look at the third line of the third verse where there is a reference to no eyes and wondered whether you have any ideas about that . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes and found that she did n't have the energy to open them again . |
| 5 | She stiffened in his arms , saw the turmoil in his eyes and panicked as she sensed how little it would take to make her surrender . |
| 6 | He opened his eyes and started as he recognised the white anxious face , staring green eyes and tousled hair of his servant , Ranulf , whom he had last seen in the infirmary of Tynemouth Priory . |