Example sentences of "could not take [pos pn] eyes " 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 She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff .
6 Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare .
7 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 .
8 There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away .
9 Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah .
10 Willie could not take his eyes off him .
11 He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it .
12 Alec could not take his eyes off her .
13 But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him .
14 Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her .
15 Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her .
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