Example sentences of "eye [vb infin] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused to give her words maximum effect and let her eyes flit over the assembly . |
| 2 | Katherine gazed into the fire , the leaping flames , let her eyes play over the fine marble hearth , the painting by George Grosz above it , with its hectic planes , its lurid faces , a satirist 's black view of life in the metropolis . |
| 3 | Dexter let his eyes play over the clutter designed to bless the pub with a friendly air : two post horns slung like bombs from the ceiling , mock Tudor beams , lines of plates balanced on every available ledge , and a grubby portrait of the Queen hung in dusty splendour above the bar . |
| 4 | Rory sighed heavily as she let her eyes roam over the sparsely populated dance floor . |
| 5 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 6 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |