Example sentences of "[pron] could not [vb infin] [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 2 | I woke up yesterday morning , I could n't open my eyes ! |
| 3 | That night I could n't close my eyes , the slightest creaking of the furniture announcing the imminent arrival of the undead . |
| 4 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 5 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 6 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I could n't believe my eyes ! |
| 10 | I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 11 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 12 | I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 13 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't believe my eyes , Leonora , when I saw you standing in the middle of the room down there . |
| 15 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 16 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 17 | It was true , I could n't keep my eyes from sprinting up her slim ankles , and fell-walking the contour lines of her sharp shoulders and her breasts , breasts that were improbably close to her scenic collar bone . |
| 18 | Three hours later they were still asking me questions and I could n't keep my eyes open . |
| 19 | That 's why I could n't keep my eyes ! |
| 20 | I looked uneasily at Martinho , who no doubt was n't too happy either , except I could n't see his eyes . |
| 21 | I could not open my eyes . |
| 22 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 23 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 24 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 27 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 28 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 29 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 30 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |