Example sentences of "with eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 2 | He emptied his glass in one gulp and I followed suit , only to end up spluttering over the table , coughing , with eyes watering , gasping for breath . |
| 3 | Slitted below and gashed with eyes … |
| 4 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 5 | KNOWING this , I am stirred to re-educate my own neglected senses by moving about the allotment with eyes almost closed when no one is looking . |
| 6 | On his left , the Woman sat biting her thumb-nail , with eyes flickering warily . |
| 7 | His reflection stared back at him with eyes that were big and dark in a small-boned face . |
| 8 | I would write letters glowing with warmth and tenderness , poems as though to a damsel with a dulcimer , gentle cadences for gentle ladies with eyes like emerald . |
| 9 | ‘ Sunday children , with eyes wider open and senses more subtle . |
| 10 | With eyes as wide as a football pool , |
| 11 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 12 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 13 | Another member of the group will be sitting on the chair with eyes closed and will point in the direction of the slightest sound . |
| 14 | The gastropods are molluscs with a single , usually helically-coiled shell , with the foot modified into an efficient creeping organ with a head usually with eyes and tentacles , and with a rasp like feeding organ ( radula ) composed of a series of pointed teeth . |
| 15 | Most trilobites were broadly oval-shaped being rather longer than wide , not greatly convex , and with eyes that occupy perhaps a quarter of the length of the head . |
| 16 | Mark Twain , for example , who went to see the Great Exhibition of 1867 , wrote : ‘ ( I saw ) Napoleon in military uniform — long-bodied , short-legged man , fiercely moustached , old , wrinkled , with eyes half-closed and such a deep crafty scheming expression about them . ’ |
| 17 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 18 | Have you not seen young girls with eyes like stars ? ’ |
| 19 | She has a flat , round face with eyes close together and a wide smile . |
| 20 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 21 | ‘ I would have thought it obvious to anyone with eyes , Miss Kenton . ’ |
| 22 | All Rottweilers with yellow eyes , hawk eyes , staring expression or with eyes of different colours . |
| 23 | Thus laden , and with eyes popping and face red , he motioned Jitka to go ahead and open the doors , which she did , and together , they climbed the stairs to the children 's room at the back where Noreen used to sleep . |
| 24 | The dark pigmentation of the skin gives further protection in hot climates , reducing the risk of problems with eyes and udder , and there is a theory that it might have a touch of Bos indicus blood in it . |
| 25 | ‘ … My whole being was , with eyes closed to every object of present sense , to crumple myself up in a sunny corner , and read , read , read . ’ |
| 26 | The seer returns with eyes glazed past doors of forgetfulness and the flowers fall from his hands and there is left only a vague fragrance . |
| 27 | He had always distrusted people with eyes that colour , unreasonably no doubt . |
| 28 | With eyes downcast , he did nor seem at all |
| 29 | He fell with eyes clenched shut . |
| 30 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |