Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 3 | At first she could not open her eyes . |
| 4 | I could not open my eyes . |
| 5 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 6 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 7 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 8 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 9 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 12 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 13 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 16 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 17 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 18 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 19 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 20 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 21 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 22 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 23 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 24 | For a moment Lisa could not tear her eyes away . |
| 25 | They could not believe their eyes — the train appeared to be following them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had stood a moment , a long pause ; at first ( her suitcase , the littered money ) she could not believe her eyes . |
| 28 | Mademoiselle stared at the enormous thing as if she really could not believe her eyes , she gave a shriek even louder than Mary-Lou had given . |
| 29 | He looked at me as if he could not believe his eyes , and a faint , doubtful smile began to move his lips . |
| 30 | When he saw the invitation , Khrushchev tells us he could not believe his eyes . |