Example sentences of "could [adv] take [pos pn] eyes off " 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 Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah .
8 Willie could not take his eyes off him .
9 He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it .
10 Alec could not take his eyes off her .
11 But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him .
12 Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her .
13 Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her .
14 My men could hardly take their eyes off them . ’
15 When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way .
16 She could n't take her eyes off it .
17 He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly .
18 She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose .
19 There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him .
20 ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers .
21 As Janet Baker , the singer , wrote , about going to hear her colleague Lena Horne perform : ‘ We could n't take our eyes off her , she has the charisma , the beauty , which comes from great discipline ’ ( Full Circle , Penguin , 1984 ) .
22 The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him .
23 When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore .
24 I could n't take my eyes off her as she swivelled to rinse the mud from her legs , then flexed her arms , swept back her hair to shake it , and the motion rippled through her body .
25 I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again .
26 He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed .
27 And her husband could n't take his eyes off her .
28 Major Nogin was looking expectantly towards our table and Ralph Pike could n't take his eyes off the major .
29 Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits .
30 Coffin could n't take his eyes off it .
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