Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] my eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie sits in Perry 's seat , not meeting my eyes , sweating . |
| 2 | But not far away stand other hills to which I do not lift my eyes . |
| 3 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 4 | She has positioned herself behind her desk , and will not meet my eyes . |
| 5 | He looks over my head , can not meet my eyes . |
| 6 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 7 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 8 | The four-foot-long nozzle is heavy for me and hard to hold level , but I do not take my eyes off the spider . |
| 9 | To which Flaubert replied , ‘ I can not change my eyes . ’ |
| 10 | I could not open my eyes . |
| 11 | But I did not open my eyes until the firing had stopped . |
| 12 | It was true , I could n't keep my eyes from sprinting up her slim ankles , and fell-walking the contour lines of her sharp shoulders and her breasts , breasts that were improbably close to her scenic collar bone . |
| 13 | Three hours later they were still asking me questions and I could n't keep my eyes open . |
| 14 | airport that afternoon , I ca n't keep my eyes awake , when we asked for |
| 15 | That 's why I could n't keep my eyes ! |
| 16 | I could n't believe my eyes ! |
| 17 | I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ I really could n't believe my eyes , Mam'selle . |
| 19 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 20 | I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 21 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 22 | Could n't believe my eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ I just could n't believe my eyes when I opened the box and a small white West Highland Terrier looking up at me . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't believe my eyes , Leonora , when I saw you standing in the middle of the room down there . |
| 25 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 26 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 27 | And he looks so surly , so shifty — he wo n't meet my eyes … ‘ |
| 28 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 29 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 30 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |