Example sentences of "eye [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for those first few weeks we could n't keep our eyes off each other . |
| 2 | It was true , but then he never could take his eyes off any woman . |
| 3 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
| 4 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
| 5 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 6 | His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself . |
| 7 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
| 8 | ‘ I keep telling you , it 's not the heating , ’ said Angalo , straining his eyes for any sign of a descending Ship . |
| 9 | I blink my eyes for some inkling of orientation , but the high-pitched multi-signals whine and cascade about in my head just to make things quite clear that they 're not going to be harassed into full-powered service tonight . |
| 10 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 11 | They laugh , pointing their tongues out like flirty little snakes , flashing the whites of their eyes through dense make-up . |
| 12 | The Judaeo-Christian influence introduced the notions of a single God and of man 's equality in the eyes of that God . |
| 13 | In the eyes of that generation of students he gave Liberalism a magic , a faith in the future . |
| 14 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 15 | Yes , the one , the , the ten foot two eyes of blue bloke . |
| 16 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 17 | The warm room contained clogged regretful murmurs , and defiance in the form of bottles and paper cups and cigarette smoke , and the many peeping eyes of female grief . |
| 18 | Tyrion and the Everqueen often hid , blindly writhing through the loam to avoid the eyes of Dark Elf patrols . |
| 19 | He had a very Irish face , although he was a Protestant , pale reddened skin , white hair , hooded watchful eyes of green-flecked hazel . |
| 20 | He suspects that he would never survive the shame should they again be exposed to the eyes of other road users . |
| 21 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 22 | Two men have already appeared iun court accused of pouring acid in the eyes of seventy-four year old Joan Cooper at her home in Banbury two days after christmas . |
| 23 | Coffins and corpses are meant to biodegrade , the acidic content of one assisting the decomposition of the other ; they are destined for burial or deposit , hidden away from the eyes of mortal man , and there it is hoped they will remain . |
| 24 | In the eyes of top management , they intervene precisely when they can be of most help , that is , when the issue ‘ requires a corporate perspective ’ . |
| 25 | Computer people seem to have great status in the eyes of top management and are not governed by the same codes as the rest of the company . |
| 26 | But he was n't prepared for the shock of seeing those eyes , his daughter 's eyes of startling green flecked with gold , that looked out from Simon 's face . |
| 27 | The latter , of course , is the greater sin in the eyes of most City boys . |
| 28 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 29 | Serious Faults Yellow ( bird of prey ) eyes , eyes of different colour or size , hairless eye rim . |
| 30 | Creggan could not see that at the sound of his words and particularly at the name of Callanish , there came into the eyes of old Minch , who was now held in the cage by the Men , a look as from some vast distance in the past . |