Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] her 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 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 5 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 6 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 7 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 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 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 11 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 12 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 13 | For a moment Lisa could not tear her eyes away . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had stood a moment , a long pause ; at first ( her suitcase , the littered money ) she could not believe her eyes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now , she could n't open her eyes . |
| 18 | Try as she might , she could n't stop her eyes from straying back in his direction time and time again , and every time they had it was to see that same unfathomable look on his face . |
| 19 | The telegraph boy , though , could n't meet her eyes . |
| 20 | In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she could n't drag her eyes away . |
| 21 | A girl could n't close her eyes and ears to it , but she could keep herself pure . |
| 22 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 23 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 26 | Cassie could n't see her eyes , but she was sure that they would be almond shaped and green , to go with the sexy red hair and double-cream complexion . |
| 27 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 28 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 29 | MARGARET WINDSOR , a mathematical modeller in Harwell 's Combustion Centre could n't believe her eyes when she arrived for work . |