Example sentences of "[adj] eye [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Textbooks also mention lid oedema , hyperpigmentation and oedema of the conjunctiva , and dry eyes in association with chlorambucil use . |
| 2 | Floppy , fair hair of identical length all round , brushed his collar behind and just missed his pale wide-set eyes in front . |
| 3 | Full of cynical amusement , she continued to stare at herself until , inspired , she started to make up her face carefully , emphasising her brown eyes with liner , and smoky eyeshadow , and dusting her high cheekbones with blusher . |
| 4 | He preferred brown eyes to blue . |
| 5 | Sue had smiled , glossy pink lips , smooth make-up , brown eyes like treacle , and said nothing and , as far as Marion knew , her feet never bothered her at all . |
| 6 | It keeps a careful eye on stock control to make sure that inventories are maintained at ‘ sensible levels ’ . |
| 7 | Thereafter , ‘ fly the line ’ , keeping a careful eye on drift and timing for the first quarter of the route , and replicating whatever heading is required for the next three- quarters , noting the times to the quarter-points . |
| 8 | Our experts emphasised Norma 's dark eyes with make-up and a new hairstyle , above , completing the look with an elegant outfit , below left |
| 9 | Davie 's tribute applies still more precisely to his own writing in Under Briggflatts , a book whose perspicacity , range of learning and pitiless eye for cant can leave little doubt which modern critic most richly deserves comparison with Samuel Johnson . |
| 10 | The mods ' fanatical eye for detail became an important element in the skinhead style . |
| 11 | Obituary : Edward Bawden : A sardonic eye for detail from Essex to the desert . |
| 12 | It was a well-proportioned house , Lissa decided , the lines drawn with an unfailing eye for symmetry and beauty . |
| 13 | TTX ( 0.5μl TTX ; 10 -4 M ) was injected slowly over about 2min with a 5μl Hamilton syringe through a 34 gauge needle into the right eye of ether-anaesthetized P15 ( a ) or P7 ( b ) rats as previously described . |
| 14 | Her left field of vision was impaired ( technically hemianopia ) , so that she had to turn her head and use her right eye in order to see anything even slightly to the left of her . |
| 15 | Besides , the fantasy moments are balanced by and anchored in an amazingly acute eye for detail , for the nuances of real relationships : in this sense thirtysomething produces the quality of the best feature films , week in and week out . |
| 16 | Anneliese was admiring the cut and style with a practised European eye for fashion . |
| 17 | Wright has lightning pace and a fabulous eye for goal . |
| 18 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 19 | He shone the slender beam into each eye in turn , then nodded . |
| 20 | Win an increasing feeling of horror , her gaze slid slowly upwards to rest in stunned disbelief on the hawklike features and deep-sea eyes of Dane Jacobsen . |
| 21 | Lord Whitelaw , a figure from the past , alighted from a black Rover , and , turning towards France in order to return the salutations of the mob , found himself staring into the bloodshot eyes of Class War . |
| 22 | From the blank eye of winter 's malsain winds , |
| 23 | The film charts her transformation from soulmate to psychopath with relentless logic and a fine eye for creepiness and is only let down by its over-the-top climax . |
| 24 | Yet he saw the danger in making these communities an ideal , as he turned an anthropological eye on Christianity and perceived that such examples seem to proffer no solution to industrial urban and suburban existence — the way most people live . |
| 25 | Her remarkable eye for talent has led to star-spotting in some very unusual places . |
| 26 | With an exceptional eye for hair in fashion photography , Trevor manages to capture the essence of his work in photographs that are profoundly unique and reflect his individuality and sense of style ’ . |
| 27 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 28 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 29 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
| 30 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |