Every time Peter visited his in-laws

[Bassim]

I am wondering if my sentences are grammatically correct.

Every time Peter visited his in-laws he had an impression they did not like him for some reason. He wondered if it was because of his working class origin, his low-paid job or his sloppy clothes. He wished he had to courage to look them in the eyes and ask them to tell him the truth.

 

[teechar]

I am wondering if my sentences are grammatically correct.

Every time Peter visited his in-laws, he had [STRIKE]an[/STRIKE] the impression they did not like him for some reason. He wondered if it was because of his working-class background, [STRIKE]origin,[/STRIKE] his low-paid job or his sloppy clothes. He wished he'd had [STRIKE]to[/STRIKE] the courage to look them in the eye and ask them to tell him the truth.

I would probably use "and confront them about it" instead of "and ask them to tell him the truth" in that sentence.

 

[Bassim]

teechar,
I am wondering about "look in the eye."
Is there a difference between for example:
Bob look Anna in the eyes.
Bob look Anna in the eye.

 

[teechar]

Bob looked Anna in the eyes.
Bob looked Anna in the eye.

I use the one with "eye".
https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...n the eye;,c0;.t1;,looked her in the eyes;,c0

 

[GoesStation]

I'm surprised the plural version even exists. It seems totally unnatural to me.

 

[Rover_KE]

The plural version is 'Look into my eyes'.

 

[Tdol]

he had an impression they did not like him for some reason.

I would use he got the impression.