Example sentences of "could not take [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.

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1 Ruth could not take her eyes off him .
2 He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him .
3 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 .
4 But she could not take her eyes off him .
5 She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff .
6 Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare .
7 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 .
8 There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away .
9 Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah .
10 Willie could not take his eyes off him .
11 He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it .
12 Alec could not take his eyes off her .
13 But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him .
14 Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her .
15 Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her .
16 Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring .
17 She could n't take her eyes off it .
18 He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly .
19 She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose .
20 There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him .
21 Defries , Daak and Ace could n't take their eyes from it as the shuttle took them inexorably towards it and it grew across the window .
22 ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers .
23 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 ) .
24 The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him .
25 When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore .
26 I could n't take my eyes of her .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed .
30 And her husband could n't take his eyes off her .
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