Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I loved him , replied the river , ‘ it was because , when he leaned over my water , I saw the reflection of my waters in his eyes . ’ |
| 2 | Hunched over , with her hair in her eyes , she looked like an old woman caught stealing potatoes , half afraid of the consequences , half afraid to let go of the spoils . |
| 3 | Her heart in her eyes , she made a wry face . |
| 4 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 5 | For a second Perdita froze as the reluctant cheers began to crescendo and stuffed her fists in her eyes , fighting back the tears . |
| 6 | She woke and cried , her fists in her eyes . |
| 7 | She saw him glance at her gracefully curved female body , as beautiful as any fashion model 's ; but there was no appraisal of her beauty in his eyes . |
| 8 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 9 | His shoulders were broad , his face handsome ; you could see his genius in his eyes and lips . |
| 10 | Ipuky must have read his thought in his eyes , for he quickly qualified what he had said by adding , ‘ I do not see how that can have any bearing on who killed Iritnefert . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 12 | The fact that they ca n't see you increases your authority in their eyes . |
| 13 | I think you must rub your hands in your eyes or something . |