Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] my eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 3 | I felt a sense of achievement , but vertigo too , and sat on a great red dais in the middle of the gallery and tried to keep my eyes open . |
| 4 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 5 | I cried like a baby every time I tried to close my eyes . |
| 6 | Wooden , solid , it seemed to catch my eye , with its open , cleared space , its black , inviting pen . |
| 7 | There 's an Antiques Fair this week just along Park End Street , and I 'd got my eye on a little set of drawers , yew-wood veneer . |
| 8 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | ‘ We walked into this shop in Denmark Street , ’ relates Niall Linehan , ‘ with the intention of buying a spare guitar , and I 'd had my eye on this Gibson Les Paul hanging on the wall there . |
| 10 | That was what I 'd had my eye on . |
| 11 | Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , I 'm really saving it up for when the hotpot comes out of the oven , but I just happened to cast my eye and yes , look … . ’ |
| 13 | I got to shut my eyes and turn round . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so happy I started crying my eyes out , ’ says Philip , eight . |
| 15 | But I kept closing my eyes and nodding off . |
| 16 | I trained my binoculars on the reeds closest to the hide ; an up-and-down bobbing movement had caught my eye . |
| 17 | It was extremely effective , did n't pull any punches , but had caught my eye and made me think . |
| 18 | Rachel had caught my eye but it seemed her interest was in my master rather than me . |
| 19 | He had a brimming goblet of wine in one hand , the other up the skirt of the dancing girl who had caught my eye earlier . |
| 20 | He thought he would do me a service by telling me that the Ice Princess who had caught my eye was right here , in Roma . ’ |
| 21 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 22 | ‘ No , at that time you were right — I had got my eyes closed . |
| 23 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 24 | I felt as though Robert had used my eyes . |
| 25 | I only had to shut my eyes and inhale and I was back in Russia . |
| 26 | There was not far to go ; I only had to keep my eyes straight ahead and my pace unhurried . |
| 27 | The two countries on which I had set my eyes were France and Italy . |
| 28 | Before we could say anything , she said in a loud voice , ‘ If God had put my eyes beneath my mouth , I would know when I 'd dropped something , would n't I ? ’ |
| 29 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 30 | I just wanted to lay my eyes upon it . |