Example sentences of "could [adv] take [pos pn] eyes [prep] " 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 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 8 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 9 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 10 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 11 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 12 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 13 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 14 | My men could hardly take their eyes off them . ’ |
| 15 | Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap . |
| 16 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 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 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I could n't take my eyes of her . |
| 26 | The little kid wanted to be an anti-star , and I could n't take my eyes off him . |
| 27 | When her Mum undressed her to try it on I could n't take my eyes off the lovely white underclothes she wore . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |