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Example sentences of "his eye like [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	His tone was harsh , his eyes like thunder .
2	‘ Rather too well , ’ said the new Minister for Sport , his eyes like chips of ice .
3	He staggered to his feet , swaying a little , his eyes like chips of blue ice .
4	‘ Yes , it fits , ’ he said quietly , his eyes like stone , flat and empty .
5	There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose .
6	During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter .
7	Sergeant Joe did n't quite , but he looked as if he did , his eyes like gimlets , his mouth a hard line beneath his moustache .
8	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 .
9	‘ I 'll stop seeing her once we 're married and not before , ’ he said , his eyes like knives .
10	Afterwards , he would read aloud from the Bible , but with difficulty because the letters on the page seemed to crawl before his eyes like flies , and sometimes were flies .
11	Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman .
12	face with a sheen of red , sparking his eyes like fire .
13	Then , before she could protest again , he turned to her and added , his eyes like steel traps in the dark lines of his face , ‘ And what at the moment is causing me some concern is one very simple but crucial question — are you bolshie , unreliable and irresponsible , too ? ’
14	The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her .