Example sentences of "eye [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They laugh , pointing their tongues out like flirty little snakes , flashing the whites of their eyes through dense make-up . |
| 5 | Yes , the one , the , the ten foot two eyes of blue bloke . |
| 6 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tyrion and the Everqueen often hid , blindly writhing through the loam to avoid the eyes of Dark Elf patrols . |
| 9 | He had a very Irish face , although he was a Protestant , pale reddened skin , white hair , hooded watchful eyes of green-flecked hazel . |
| 10 | He suspects that he would never survive the shame should they again be exposed to the eyes of other road users . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Serious Faults Yellow ( bird of prey ) eyes , eyes of different colour or size , hairless eye rim . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem . |
| 19 | The project failed because the Alliance could not disguise the class basis of its appeal in the eyes of working-class electorate , numerically stronger , with powerful industrial base , and tradition of independent , at times aggressive , action . |
| 20 | The chin was slightly hooked , the nose long and jutting , the eyes of piercing green . |
| 21 | Equally , governments ' ability to enforce subsequent agreements , will depend both on the existing efficiency and administrative capacity of local States , and on the legitimacy of their taking positive action to defend the global environment , in the eyes of local interest groups . |
| 22 | Accepting that , the health authorities say that the damage in the present case was suffered by the plaintiff whilst still en ventre sa mère and therefore while not a person in the eyes of English law . |
| 23 | He was too young to be awarded a pilot 's certificate , but on November 16 he flew the Farman under the watchful eyes of Royal Aero Club observers and was granted pilot 's certificate No 368 . |
| 24 | The simpler side eyes detect peripheral movement and guide the main eyes towards potential prey . |
| 25 | He stood up , looking down at her with eyes like splintered ice . |
| 26 | Damian snatched the phone from her hand , eyes like blue fire . |
| 27 | Strain had settled round her eyes like old make-up . |
| 28 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 29 | Quirinus — the name rang in his head , and he remembered red wine and rich robes , a bald head and eyes like rain-scoured granite . |
| 30 | ‘ Before these children 's greedy eyes with heartless indiscrimination horrors unimaginable are … presented night by night … terrific massacres , horrible catastrophes , motor-car smashes , public hangings , lynchings ’ is how the lurid impact of the cinematograph was seen in 1913 . |