Example sentences of "[pron] could not take [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 2 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 3 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 11 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 12 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 13 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 16 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 17 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 18 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 19 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 20 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |