Example sentences of "[verb] eye [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 2 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 3 | Ever since I laid eyes on Dominic Wetherby I 've been unable to rest . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're going to regret the day you ever laid eyes on Matthew , ’ Sandra hissed . |
| 5 | Golf : Seve has eye on Player 's record |
| 6 | Turns towards the horse and whispers in a language almost Hindi — eyes match eyes for kindliness . |
| 7 | I tell ya , it threw me having those tormented eyes of Clift staring just above me . ’ |
| 8 | She lifted eyes like gem-stones , ruby-bright in the light of the torches , black , surely , in full daylight . |
| 9 | He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car . |
| 10 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 11 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 12 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 13 | The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms . |
| 14 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 15 | Forte turns eye to Savoy again |
| 16 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 17 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 18 | Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye . |
| 19 | Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ . |
| 20 | The trouble is , we do n't see eye to eye , or , more correctly , our minds move in different channels . |
| 21 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 22 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’ |
| 24 | America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye . |
| 25 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 26 | But then those two do n't see eye to eye about anything these days . |
| 27 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |
| 28 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 29 | I do n't see eye to eye with Tod on all issues . |
| 30 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |