Example sentences of "[adv] take [pron] 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 | But she did not take her eyes from Riven . |
| 6 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 7 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 8 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
| 9 | He spoke slowly to the children and did not take his eyes off them as he spoke . |
| 10 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 11 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 12 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 13 | He did not take his eyes off me . |
| 14 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 15 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 16 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 17 | Dr Ali did not take his eyes off his face . |
| 18 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 21 | The four-foot-long nozzle is heavy for me and hard to hold level , but I do not take my eyes off the spider . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | My men could hardly take their eyes off them . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 28 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 29 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 30 | She could n't take her eyes off it . |