Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude . |
| 2 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 3 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 4 | Without it the retinas of their eyes would rapidly deteriorate . |
| 5 | Who gives a damn , certainly not me , caressing your lovely legs with my eyes . |
| 6 | The sound has been increased to such a volume that , as I turn my head as if from a physical blow , I notice rows of heads with their eyes staring wildly and hair blown back as in a fierce gale . |
| 7 | INTO THE HAT — 24 NATIONS WITH THEIR EYES ON ROME |
| 8 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 9 | He burnt both retinas in his eyes , but was thankfully treated by a doctor in time , and has since completely recovered . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 11 | The images from his eyes faded and blurred . |
| 12 | I have words before my eyes , as you might imagine . |
| 13 | And yet still she stood there , transfixed by the demands in his eyes , powerless to move . |
| 14 | They stood there with their aprons to their eyes . |
| 15 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 16 | Purple lines floated on the surfaces of his eyes , coming briefly into focus , then retreating into vague smudges . |
| 17 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
| 18 | On her left was a thin , grey-haired woman with deep lines between her eyes and curving past the sides of her mouth . |
| 19 | She blinked and touched the corners of her eyes . |
| 20 | Life had been-kind to her and there were few lines on her face , except in the corners of her eyes and around her swanlike neck just beneath the chin . |
| 21 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 22 | Pearly tears seeded themselves in the corners of her eyes . |
| 23 | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 24 | The skin of her face is soft and lived-in , with little wrinkles at the corners of her eyes , and beneath the lobes of her ears . |
| 25 | She has creases at the corners of her eyes , and when she lowers her head to avoid Howard 's serious gaze she has a fold of flesh under her jaw . |
| 26 | She is a pretty old woman with pure white hair and clear blue eyes , and skin that crinkles only slightly about the mouth and corners of her eyes . |
| 27 | Then she noted a curious twitching at the edge of Lady Merchiston 's bloodless lips and an intensity of the creases at the corners of her eyes . |
| 28 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 29 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 30 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |