Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 2 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 3 | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set , widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows , a well-shaped , rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon . |
| 4 | All these setbacks did n't matter , old chap , because the referee only has eyes for the big boys . |
| 5 | She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’ |
| 6 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 7 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 8 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 9 | ‘ I will only have eyes for you . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 11 | Once in Amedeo 's company everyone agrees that she ‘ only had eyes for him ’ . |
| 12 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 13 | No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly . |
| 14 | Any visiting player who was foolish enough to make eyes at Perdita , or disparaging cracks about Little Chef 's appearance , got very short shrift . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 17 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
| 18 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 19 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 20 | He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're going to regret the day you ever laid eyes on Matthew , ’ Sandra hissed . |
| 22 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 23 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 24 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 25 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |
| 28 | 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 … ’ |
| 29 | They do n't always see eye to eye but they respect one another . |
| 30 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |