Example sentences of "could not [verb] 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 .
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