Example sentences of "[adv] take her eye " 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 | But she did not take her eyes from Riven . |
| 6 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 7 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 8 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
| 9 | The mare moved restlessly round her box , not taking her eyes off him . |
| 10 | Jess spoke fiercely , not taking her eyes from the raddled face , daring her to deny it . |
| 11 | ‘ How did it look ? ’ she asked Morris , not taking her eyes off the screen . |
| 12 | Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking . |
| 13 | I 've settled with her ; she knows her place , ’ Rose said over her shoulder , not taking her eyes off Coffin 's face . |
| 14 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 15 | The mother said she hardly took her eyes off him for a second . ’ |
| 16 | She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial . |
| 17 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 18 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 19 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She did n't take her eyes off Frank . |
| 22 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 23 | She opened it , scrutinised the first of the many pages it contained , then took her eyes from it to query , ‘ Palmer & Pearson ? |
| 24 | Helen , never taking her eyes off Alexandra , craned sideways so that she could wind a finger round and round in a hole in her black stocking . |
| 25 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 26 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |