Example sentences of "[pron] eye like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sairellen herself had met the constable on her doorstep and kept him there , her arms folded across her impassive chest , her eyes like chips of granite . |
| 2 | She nodded , her eyes like stars , her pulse racing at the implication in his words . |
| 3 | With her white hair , her eyes like bits of the sky . |
| 4 | ‘ Jessica , ’ she said , her eyes like diamonds . |
| 5 | Topaz stared at the ring with the huge ruby surrounded by diamonds , her eyes like saucers . |
| 6 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 7 | His tone was harsh , his eyes like thunder . |
| 8 | ‘ Rather too well , ’ said the new Minister for Sport , his eyes like chips of ice . |
| 9 | He staggered to his feet , swaying a little , his eyes like chips of blue ice . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , it fits , ’ he said quietly , his eyes like stone , flat and empty . |
| 11 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 12 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 13 | Sergeant Joe did n't quite , but he looked as if he did , his eyes like gimlets , his mouth a hard line beneath his moustache . |
| 14 | His eyes looked small and yellow , set in a tracery of deepening lines which seemed to radiate from his eyes like waves in a small still pool . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll stop seeing her once we 're married and not before , ’ he said , his eyes like knives . |
| 16 | Afterwards , he would read aloud from the Bible , but with difficulty because the letters on the page seemed to crawl before his eyes like flies , and sometimes were flies . |
| 17 | Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman . |
| 18 | face with a sheen of red , sparking his eyes like fire . |
| 19 | Then , before she could protest again , he turned to her and added , his eyes like steel traps in the dark lines of his face , ‘ And what at the moment is causing me some concern is one very simple but crucial question — are you bolshie , unreliable and irresponsible , too ? ’ |
| 20 | The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her . |
| 21 | ‘ You should n't wear brown , it makes your eyes like boot buttons . |