Example sentences of "[adj] eye set in " in BNC.

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1 But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees .
2 His face was thin and you saw those strange blue-coloured eyes set in the darkness of his skin .
3 Of Jewish descent , he is a big man in every sense , powerfully built , with deep dark eyes set in a craggy , lined face and an Albert Schweitzer moustache .
4 Leila , his girlfriend , has John Lennon 's other pair of glasses , but behind her pair are sparkling eyes set in a face that is always cheerful .
5 Of indeterminate age , he had moist grey eyes set in a pale , thin face .
6 Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin .
7 One of the giant owls of the region , about the size of an Eagle Owl ( p. 177 ) , but with longer tail , rounder head and no ear tufts , smaller yellow eyes set in a facial disc with concentric dark rings , and a black patch on the chin .
8 Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh .
9 Neat black hair , with dark intense eyes set in a handsome sunburnt face .
10 The shock of red hair , the puckish , mobile face and preternaturally bright eyes set in an expression of mocking amusement all conspired to lend Malcolm McLaren a Mephistophelean air .
11 With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head .
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