Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you want me ? ’ she growled innocently looking up into eyes now slate-blue and heavy-looking with unsated sex . |
| 3 | If each overlay were drawn on transparent paper then a light table could be used to allow the viewer to look simultaneously at the spatial distribution of each attribute and to pick out by eye the areas of interest . |
| 4 | Striking bridled variety , more frequent in north , has narrow white ring round and line back from eye . |
| 5 | Now he stood facing her inside a remote Finnish forest while she gazed back with eyes like the Arctic ice . |
| 6 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 7 | Gasping at the totally unexpected movement , and the searing shock of his touch , Polly stared up into eyes that gleamed with cold fire . |
| 8 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 9 | ( Max puts on radio earphones and leans back with eyes closed . |
| 10 | The richness and diversity will be when your grandchildren , your great grandchildren , are of mixed race , mixed ancestry : look at each other with fondness and love out of eyes which slant every which way and who compare the shade of their skins with interest , not envy : because the paler the skin no longer means the longer-lived , the more prosperous , the more educated , the more capable of reaching the fullness of human potential . |
| 11 | We could hear things in the score which usually we are obliged to seek out by eyes reading the score . |
| 12 | Forehead white with white eyebrows extending back beyond eye , bill black , white-tipped tail deeply forked . |
| 13 | Rare vagrant to Red Sea and E Atlantic seas and coasts from Western Approaches to Canaries , a larger version of Bridled Tern , with darker upperparts , no white collar , white of forehead not extending back beyond eye , and outer tail feathers not wholly white at tip . |
| 14 | In other words , can a computer imitate the process the archaeological expert carries out by eye when he constructs his standard typologies ? |