Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] their eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three turned their eyes on her like a trio of hanging judges . |
| 2 | To her relief , Oz nodded and , as soon as they all took their eyes off him , he slid away from the tea-table and out of the room . |
| 3 | Surapee ( Su ) Karnasuta , a young Thai who helped Moira run the shop , had several Thai friends who were happy to train their eyes on potential shoplifters and were not afraid of speaking authoritatively to anyone they suspected of helping themselves . |
| 4 | Any farm workers who came near the site in the course of their daily work were too busy to lift their eyes from the soil to take in the surrounding landscape , or individual figures moving within it . |
| 5 | True , the older children found it necessary to close their eyes during the ‘ soppy bits ’ — to blot out the vision of Peter Pan ( Robin Williams ) and Tinkerbell ( Julia Roberts ) kissing , for instance — but that was a small price to pay , they thought , for a decent story of revenge , piracy and adult idiocy . |