Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] eye [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 2 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 3 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 4 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 5 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 6 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |
| 7 | ’ In her mind 's eye she saw the face of her father , and her heart was heavy . |
| 8 | Helen thought of the dark woman ; in the mind 's eye she saw her — laughing and talking with Giles . |
| 9 | Only in her mind 's eye she saw the image of her father , rather big , fleshy , with bulging expressionless eyes . |
| 10 | In my mind 's eye I see him as he was , complete with bowler-hat and aquiline nose . |
| 11 | You did n't have to have the soul of a poet to conjure up what could have been ; in my mind 's eye I had a vision of Templars in their faceless conical helmets , red and white crosses on their black cloaks , moving across the island at the dead of night , the barges being soundlessly poled whilst , at prow and stern , huge cresset torches spluttered and flared in the darkness . |
| 12 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 13 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 14 | In Stan Whittaker 's eyes it is perhaps good health and good fun that make the sacrifices of a fight against Fascism at all worthwhile . |
| 15 | And since we see events solely through Flood 's eye we drift with him . |
| 16 | I mean all that kid do was scream , scream , scream , scream , I mean Ross was n't the best one to be with , cos he was selfish and of course in Julia 's eyes he never did any wrong but Kerry come off worse all the time and I said childminding is fine and it 's necessary but the people , you know that , that people ca n't know people and Julia was a spoilt brat so |
| 17 | To Julia 's eye she seemed to wear no powder or lipstick , but then she hardly needed any . |
| 18 | The houses were neat and not unpleasing in design , though to Winnie 's eyes they appeared to be built far too close together , and the low wire fences gave no privacy . |
| 19 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 20 | It was your eye , like a rabbit 's eye it was too still . |
| 21 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 22 | We go on being as good , or better so that in our customers ' eyes we are always their Company of the Year — every year . |
| 23 | How like his father 's eyes they are . |
| 24 | But it is only from an aesthetic point of view that they merit , in consequence , much less attention ; in the novelist 's eyes they become , on the contrary , more revealing . |
| 25 | Anyway he owned the place and in most people 's eyes he had every right to chuck me out . |
| 26 | In the woman 's eyes he saw a like recognition and knew his senses did not deceive him . |
| 27 | He was elected by his brethren for a purely utilitarian purpose , but in God 's eyes he remained just another humble seeker . |
| 28 | Again , explain what 's been said to a close friend and keep reminding yourself that in God 's eyes you are a successful , important and useful person . |
| 29 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 30 | Bird 's Eye I think . |