Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] her eyes " 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 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 4 | She had stood a moment , a long pause ; at first ( her suitcase , the littered money ) she could not believe her eyes . |
| 5 | Mademoiselle stared at the enormous thing as if she really could not believe her eyes , she gave a shriek even louder than Mary-Lou had given . |
| 6 | She imagined that if she did not wipe her eyes , thrusting in a knuckle or a handkerchief , the tears would leave less trace . |
| 7 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 8 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 9 | For a moment Lisa could not tear her eyes away . |
| 10 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 11 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 12 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 15 | But she did not take her eyes from Riven . |
| 16 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 17 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 18 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
| 19 | She spoke warmly , but her smile of farewell did not reach her eyes and there were hard lines round her mouth . |
| 20 | She forced a smile , but it did not reach her eyes . |
| 21 | She said the word clearly , but still did not raise her eyes to her father 's . |
| 22 | Julia laid her head back but did not shut her eyes until he had left the room . |
| 23 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 24 | Maggie would not close her eyes , because that would be cheating , but she shortened her focus so that it rested precisely on the window-panes , and although they were not dirty and the moonbeams seemed to shine straight through them , they were there . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I did not close her eyes , nor did anyone who came on the scene before you . ’ |
| 26 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 27 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 28 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 29 | And then when he moved and Ellie could see who the caller was , she did n't believe her eyes . |
| 30 | MARGARET WINDSOR , a mathematical modeller in Harwell 's Combustion Centre could n't believe her eyes when she arrived for work . |