Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] their eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible to gues the outcome in the northeast , but the Southwest is anybody 's and all three main parties have their eyes on it and local issues are being played to the maximum . |
| 2 | I think Blackburn have their eye on promotion . |
| 3 | In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics . |
| 4 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 5 | The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we were n't there . |
| 6 | Scottish sheep farmers have their eyes on Europe . |
| 7 | Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens . |
| 8 | Yes but people shut their eyes to it . |
| 9 | But at the moment people shut their eyes to it because |
| 10 | The scribes had their eyes on the lawcourts , on the current political situation , on tangible concerns capable of exact definition . |
| 11 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |
| 12 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
| 13 | He thought of the flares bursting like orange plums in the soot-black night , illuminating the trucks , the humped tanks , the upflung arms of waking men shielding their eyes from the glare . |
| 14 | POLICE KEEP THEIR EYE ON YOUTHS AT SOUTHEND , 1981 |
| 15 | Others had drawn their shawls across the faces of their children to shield their eyes from the sight . |
| 16 | They advanced cautiously , wide brims shading their eyes from the climbing sun , constantly on the lookout for signs of life or opposition . |
| 17 | Terry burst out laughing , causing all the people in the restaurant to take their eyes off Maura and begin staring at him . |
| 18 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 19 | Noting that the amateur code is still alive and well in Canada , Hadley nevertheless feels the time has come , as he says , for the powers-that-be to open their eyes to reality . |
| 20 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 21 | Both boys kept their eyes on the end of the line . |
| 22 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 23 | All the minions in the outer office take their eyes off their VDUs , and follow my limping progress up the room . |
| 24 | THE chasing bunch have their eyes on the bend ( top ) while Alexandre Nadobenko takes the applause as he crosses the finish line |
| 25 | Besides the Titanic , Nicholson and his colleagues have their eyes on several suspected Roman , Greek and other ancient wrecks in the Mediterranean . |