Example sentences of "eye like [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rather too well , ’ said the new Minister for Sport , his eyes like chips of ice . |
| 2 | Sairellen herself had met the constable on her doorstep and kept him there , her arms folded across her impassive chest , her eyes like chips of granite . |
| 3 | He staggered to his feet , swaying a little , his eyes like chips of blue ice . |
| 4 | With her white hair , her eyes like bits of the sky . |
| 5 | His shoulder-length jet-black hair falls dramatically and we see his face clearly for the first time — high-cheek-boned , eyes like slits of molten anthracite . |
| 6 | He picks it up and sees that it 's a tiny silver woman , with hair like spun silk and blue eyes like pieces of the sky come down to earth — ; |
| 7 | Eyes like saucers at those frightful queens we both know and love . |
| 8 | He had a forehead and nose any Greek might have acknowledged with pride , and long , grey-blue eyes like slivers of self-illuminating stone , somewhere between lapis-lazuli and granite . |
| 9 | His eyes looked small and yellow , set in a tracery of deepening lines which seemed to radiate from his eyes like waves in a small still pool . |