Example sentences of "i closed my eyes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 2 | I closed my eyes while he was gone . |
| 3 | He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles . |
| 4 | Fiona 's face seemed very real as I closed my eyes and scenes of the Highlands passed before me . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes and conjured up my whispering vision : the great log fire , the rocking chairs , Somebody knitting and listening , me talking . |
| 6 | I closed my eyes and clutched a handful of mane . |
| 7 | I closed my eyes and I got a different feeling |
| 8 | I closed my eyes and tried to think of Toby — just his face . |
| 9 | I closed my eyes and concentrated on the voice , and I thought it was n't you , but I did n't really know . |
| 10 | I closed my eyes and waited to die . |
| 11 | I closed my eyes and watched the sheets of warm colour that came as I relaxed or increased the tension of the lids . |
| 12 | I closed my eyes and invoked the Madonna . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes and thought back . |
| 14 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
| 15 | I closed my eyes and opened them again . |
| 16 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 17 | I closed my eyes and suddenly the jakes door was thrust back and a veritable mountain of a man stood there . |
| 18 | I closed my eyes and spurred my horse forward , my huge sword rising and falling as if I was the Grim Reaper himself . |
| 19 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 20 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |