Example sentences of "[vb past] eye [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since I laid eyes on Dominic Wetherby I 've been unable to rest . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're going to regret the day you ever laid eyes on Matthew , ’ Sandra hissed . |
| 3 | She lifted eyes like gem-stones , ruby-bright in the light of the torches , black , surely , in full daylight . |
| 4 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 5 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 6 | As Bailey said , the two of them never saw eye to eye . |
| 7 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 8 | For some reason , we never saw eye to eye . |
| 9 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 10 | Kukuli was Quechua for ‘ beautiful bird ’ and even in the dim light of the carriage I could see she had eyes like stars . |
| 11 | As soon as she set eyes on Giles Carnaby again she knew that whatever it was it was not a case of cure ; her heart thumped , she felt unstable . |
| 12 | Once he set eyes on Albert , he knew that the old man was very sick indeed . |