Example sentences of "her eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cal was standing there , anxiously running her eyes over each of the carriages , looking for me . |
| 2 | Dolly viewed her mutton chop , mashed potatoes and spring greens , then cast her eyes over the table , spread with a plain white cloth . |
| 3 | Kath flicked her eyes over his soft cotton shirt and cord jeans . |
| 4 | She sighed angrily , then narrowed her eyes into slits and stared at Buddie 's broad back . |
| 5 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 6 | She half-hooded her eyes as the room shifted on its moorings . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes as a surge of sickness came up inside her . |
| 8 | She closed her eyes as if awaiting a kiss . |
| 9 | She screwed up her eyes as if she was having difficulty seeing her child . |
| 10 | She pauses and closes her eyes as if in deep concentration . |
| 11 | Jannie put her spare hand over her eyes as if shielding them from the sun , and closed out the sight of her husband . |
| 12 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 13 | She lay back in the water , closing her eyes as the water lapped softly against her skin . |
| 14 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 15 | The hot sting of tears pricked painfully at her eyes as the agony of hating him and yet wanting him so desperately all at the same time overwhelmed her . |
| 16 | She closed her eyes as the pain of knowing rose and twisted inside . |
| 17 | The girl , when I could see her properly , was a rough-looking twenty , and had as many coats of paint over her eyes as a Roller gets on its doors . |
| 18 | Shiona sank against the pillows now and closed her eyes as a rush of sadness went washing through her . |
| 19 | Then the father in the book had a fatal heart attack and she went white , putting it down , tears burning her eyes as the aircraft engines whined on and on , and the Oriental stewardesses moved gracefully around the cabin , collecting drinks and trays . |
| 20 | Matthew was kneeling on the floor looking into her eyes beside the couch and his arm was around her . |
| 21 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 22 | This time Theda met the demand in her eyes without flinching away . |
| 23 | She was on edge as it was , heart jumping , deeply aware of that hard body , the black polo shirt that had constantly drawn her eyes during dinner , her X-ray eyes seeing every muscle , sinew , hair on his chest . |
| 24 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 25 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 26 | It was Sir Keith Joseph who opened her eyes to what was subsequently dubbed ‘ Thatcherism ’ . |
| 27 | She raised her eyes to Surkov . |
| 28 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 29 | She had not yet raised her eyes to the frescos ; she would do so in due course ; she found them almost unbearably painful to behold . |
| 30 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |