Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [adj] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 2 | Her expression , to my fearful eyes , was enigmatic . |
| 3 | Instead they show to my prejudiced eyes that the sea changes were very rapid indeed . |
| 4 | The famous skyline appeared and the potential exposure looked awe inspiring to my youthful eyes . |
| 5 | But to my Western eyes , children here are remarkably un-spoilt . |
| 6 | It seemed to my amused eyes that the two chefs were in chilly unfriendliness , marking out their territories , each , in the normal course of events , being accustomed to being the boss . |
| 7 | To my unadapted eyes the scene looked as bleached-out as an over-exposed snapshot . |
| 8 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 9 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
| 10 | He failed the test and the reward has gone to someone else and it is not , Anna said fiercely to herself , pressing her palms to her closed eyes , it is not fair that he should never know what he can not do , that he should always set himself targets he ca n't achieve , that he should never be allowed to progress . |
| 11 | He had invested his money in a number of schemes that required his attention , and his days seemed pretty full to her untrained eyes . |
| 12 | Forgetting her earlier indignation , excitement bringing a sparkle to her golden eyes , Luce hurried over to look at them more closely . |
| 13 | She looked pale to her own eyes , and she knew that was from tension . |
| 14 | AUDREY HEPBURN is up to her cat-like eyes in murder and dirty double crossing in this clever comedy thriller that has become a film classic . |
| 15 | She looked at the pictures of the Spitfire , and trembled to think that his survival depended , in part , on such a little plane , almost like a child 's toy to her sophisticated eyes . |
| 16 | Entering a room full of rough soldiers , unescorted , and sitting alone at the high table , exposed to their speculative eyes and lewd jokes , held no fears for her . |
| 17 | Her eyes rounded and she hugged every scrap of blanket she could around her body , making a barrier to his hot eyes . |
| 18 | He was talking rather too much , he knew , but her appearance in the dress of silver lame — like some kind of armour remembered from childhood play-acting it looked to his inexperienced eyes — was quite startling and such a contrast to Ianthe 's sober blue wool dress . |
| 19 | He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes . |
| 20 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 21 | The satisfaction of watching the emergence of an obscure water-mark under soft X-rays never palled , and the final pattern was as fascinating to his unsurprised eyes as the expected potter 's mark to a collector of porcelain . |
| 22 | His security undermined , he was now more vulnerable than ever to Mauve 's voice and its cutting edge , to his cold eyes , the touch of condescension . |
| 23 | But beauties like Sophia Loren and Michelle Pfeiffer bring a sparkle to his baggy eyes . |
| 24 | To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy , holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor . |
| 25 | To our zealous eyes , hypocrisy was everywhere . |
| 26 | The Bishop 's Castle train , even to our youthful eyes , was not like other trains . |
| 27 | A plant and its flower may look beautiful to our human eyes , but a plant itself has no eyes with which to perceive itself or its fellows . |
| 28 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 29 | Many of these prints have shifted subtly in colour or tonality , in ways more apparent to the lithographer 's camera than to our own eyes . |
| 30 | Milhaez spun the wheel this way and that , negotiating islands that only appeared , at least to our unfamiliar eyes , at the last moment . |