Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 32 | Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair . |
| 33 | For his pains he received a black eye , a bloodied nose , a split lip , two skinned knees , several bruised ribs and four strokes of the cane on each hand for fighting on school premises . |
| 34 | Another report said one of the holidaymakers suffered a serious eye injury caused by flying glass . |
| 35 | The 51-year-old victim suffered a serious eye injury in the attack by youths who drove from the scene laughing . |
| 36 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 37 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 38 | Young Kirk suffered a nasty eye injury against the Canadian champion Dale Brown in a rousing light heavyweight final in Victoria , but took gold on a count-back after a five-five tie on punches landed . |
| 39 | AI has received reports indicating that he suffered a severe eye injury as a result of beatings during interrogation . |
| 40 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 41 | Farquhar , at his shoulder , turned a cynical eye on all this worthy , pious mildness , and wondered to himself how long it would last . |
| 42 | The radical Mamba darabiner turned a few eyes on the DMM stand . |
| 43 | It is perhaps not to be wondered that when the clouds of war then appeared , those in high places turned a speculative eye on this , the greatest privately-owned railway organisation in the world , with facilities and space , equipped in a wide range , from precision tools to mighty hammers , forges , foundries , and a tradition of skilled craftsmanship grafted to modern organisational and administrative ability , for a possible source of production of the sinews of war . |
| 44 | Angelina turned a cold eye on him . |
| 45 | Naturally , father knew , but turned a blind eye . |
| 46 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 47 | It featured Shaun and Bez again , ‘ off our heads , in full throttle , coming out with all sorts of shit ’ , except this time no one turned a blind eye , offered excuses or mildly slapped their wrists . |
| 48 | And turned a blind eye to the sinking S** . |
| 49 | Our knowledge of all these sides of religious life at Canterbury at the time of the Conquest has had to be reconstructed by laborious scholarship , largely because Lanfranc turned a blind eye to every aspect of a native religious tradition . |
| 50 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 51 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 52 | turned a blind eye to fibre optics , |
| 53 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |
| 54 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 55 | Rex turned a blind eye to the fact that he was obviously Officer Cecil , poorly disguised in false moustache , tailcoat and spats . |
| 56 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 57 | Nelson , who took Murdoch 's place in goal , first of all did as his namesake and turned a blind eye to a cross from McGinlay . |
| 58 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 59 | Julia contracted a rare eye disease , retinitis pigmentosa , when she was two ; which meant she lost part of her retina and gradually her vision . |
| 60 | The dog opened a lazy eye to watch them safe out . |