Example sentences of "eye [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She spun round , startled , at the sound of Jake 's voice , to find him standing at her elbow , blue eyes dark with condemnation as they looked down into her face .
2 ‘ Think again , ’ she said jauntily , her eyes dark with warning .
3 Michael was fuming , his blue eyes dark with anger .
4 His brown eyes dark with anger , he stared the old man out .
5 Backing away , her eyes dark with fear and a terrible , raging need as he prowled , step by step , towards her , she felt her naked spine against the chill glass of the mirror .
6 His voice was filled with tenderness , his eyes dark with understanding , and she nodded , loving him more than ever at that moment .
7 ‘ All right ! ’ she relented savagely , her eyes dark in contrast to the pallor of rage .
8 eyes innocent of feeling
9 Mrs Maylie came back with her eyes red from crying .
10 The banshee sometimes appears as a horrific woman with straggling black hair , one nostril , protruding front teeth , and eyes red from weeping .
11 She saw the chunky figure of a child in vest and knickers , neck red from scrubbing , eyes red from weeping .
12 The man licked mud-caked lips , eyes half-closing in weariness .
13 Ambiguous words spoken in anger , or intended merely as a reprimand , may in your eyes amount to words of dismissal , even if there is no constructive dismissal .
14 I have assessed the risk of eye contamination during outpatient surgical procedures performed under local anaesthesia .
15 They found that the same pattern of results was obtained even when only one eye fixation per slide was allowed , always on the central detail .
16 To sum up , a number of interlocking factors have operated to shift the focus of concern about the impact of technological change on the quality of working life towards physical hazard from using the equipment ( eg radiation and eye damage from VDUs , equipment design ) and away from the ways that software , job design and work organisation could produce jobs that workers experienced as stressful , fatiguing and dehumanising .
17 Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object .
18 John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was .
19 It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing .
20 The photos , now on show at the Open Eye Gallery in Bold Street , Liverpool , and the Great George 's Project , give a vivid view of black life in Los Angeles .
21 After allowing for the much higher non-attendance rate in controls , the annual rate of eye examination per patient and the number of patients referred to a hospital ophthalmic clinic were comparable in the two groups .
22 Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again .
23 Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and .
24 Xanthommatin is an eye pigment in Drosophila ; its biosynthesis from tryptophane via kynurenine and 3-hydroxykynurenine is under genetic control .
25 Using sophisticated surveillance equipment they are able to monitor the movements of terrorist suspects within a wide radius — from a bird 's eye point of view .
26 The indicative offer follows this stage and sets the scene for the formal eye ball to eye ball negotiations .
27 But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie .
28 I exchanged eye contact with Werewolf 's shades .
29 Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope .
30 There are culturally determined practices related to eye contact , for example certain aborigines , to be polite , do not look into each other 's eyes as they talk , whereas in the Western world it is polite to maintain eye contact during conversation .
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