Example sentences of "[pron] eyes on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you two try to get some sleep and I 'll keep me eyes on that platform . |
| 2 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 3 | I chose a spot well away from the wasp-infested rubbish bins and kept my eyes on my book when the shadow of a man cast over it . |
| 4 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 5 | An all-nighter was a triumph of will and my eyelids were already dropping , but I kept my eyes on the thin figure . |
| 6 | Doubtless the authorities would not heed my plea , but here in County Fermanagh I could feast my eyes on red pillar boxes to my heart 's content . |
| 7 | I try to keep my eyes on everything . |
| 8 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 9 | For long stretches I walked with my eyes on the ground , mesmerized by the silence of the forest , by my own soundless footsteps . |
| 10 | For a long time I walked with my eyes on the ground , watching my feet sinking interminably into the snow . |
| 11 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 12 | I kept my eyes on the dressing as Mrs Scutt produced photos . |
| 13 | and kept my eyes on psalters and hymn-books . |
| 14 | I sang quite loudly to rise above the noise of the cars , and fixed my eyes on Anna , walking among the tables with her straw hat ready for coins . |
| 15 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
| 16 | As I told you , I have my eyes on a very different sort of market . |
| 17 | ‘ I am a smart fool , tuan , ’ I said , with my eyes on the ground . |
| 18 | My eyes on the table until I wake up . |
| 19 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 20 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 21 | I asked , my eyes on a cheap silver bracelet . |
| 22 | by courtesy to keep my eyes on her lipstick . |
| 23 | And now that I 'm up here the problem is keeping my eyes on this page and stopping my mind from wandering and my pen from straying to the edge of the paper and doodling , something I am sure to give in to before long . |
| 24 | I kept my eyes on the screen . |
| 25 | I kept my eyes on the screen . |
| 26 | I kept my eyes on his face . |
| 27 | In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics . |
| 28 | INTO THE HAT — 24 NATIONS WITH THEIR EYES ON ROME |
| 29 | The other three turned their eyes on her like a trio of hanging judges . |
| 30 | That 's their problem , if they ca n't keep their eyes on the road . |