Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pos pn] eye to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their teacher has said that the project ‘ has opened their eyes to the problems that have to be met by the elderly and disabled . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It has opened my eyes to the value of self-development , showing that people can acquire new skills without having to resort to external courses . ’ |
| 4 | This Peeping Tom has put his eye to the nick or cranny in our walls and peers shamelessly in . |
| 5 | It has sent plutonium across the Atlantic , and it has shut its eyes to the consequences . |
| 6 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 7 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 8 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 9 | I 've closed my eyes to your activities long enough . |
| 10 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , you 've repaid him : you 've opened his eyes to things that 've been under his nose , and he could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 12 | Working in the WTN news room for the past four years had opened my eyes to how the media worked . |
| 13 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 14 | You 're trying to shut your eyes to 1993 , that 's what you 're trying to do , and you 're trying to pull the rest of us down with it , well it ai n't gon na happen . |
| 15 | He blinked , trying to accustom his eyes to the change , but still could n't see much . |
| 16 | After the audience had accustomed their eyes to the flash , they beheld a subtle and beautiful sight . |
| 17 | She had found a gap in the blackout material and had fixed her eye to it . |
| 18 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |