Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] my eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to shut my eyes and turn round . |
| 2 | I cried like a baby every time I tried to close my eyes . |
| 3 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 4 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 5 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 6 | I want to rest my eyes . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started . |
| 8 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | I remember crying my eyes out . |
| 10 | ‘ I was so happy I started crying my eyes out , ’ says Philip , eight . |
| 11 | I try to keep my eyes on everything . |
| 12 | But I kept closing my eyes and nodding off . |
| 13 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 14 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 15 | ‘ No , at that time you were right — I had got my eyes closed . |
| 16 | The two countries on which I had set my eyes were France and Italy . |
| 17 | ‘ And I do it so that people know I 've been around and I 've kept my eyes open . ’ |
| 18 | I 've kept my eyes open when we 're going through Harford |
| 19 | I 've closed my eyes to your activities long enough . |
| 20 | There 's a small Regency table I 've got my eyes on . |
| 21 | You 're like that girl Flavia : you think I do n't know what goes on around me , but I 've got my eyes open . ’ |
| 22 | Crippled I may be , but I 've got my eyes and ears . ’ |
| 23 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 24 | At all events , wherever I have wandered I have had my eyes open and my senses awake . |
| 25 | I have closed my eyes far too long , in hope … ’ |