Example sentences of "[art] [adj] eye [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 2 | TTX ( 0.5μl TTX ; 10 -4 M ) was injected slowly over about 2min with a 5μl Hamilton syringe through a 34 gauge needle into the right eye of ether-anaesthetized P15 ( a ) or P7 ( b ) rats as previously described . |
| 3 | the weak eye of Pierre |
| 4 | in the dry eye of Bolkonsky |
| 5 | Under the menacing eyes of Edward 's Forest judges , juries in Essex , Hampshire , Gloucestershire , Derby , Staffordshire , Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire restated the bounds of the forests in their counties at their widest extent . |
| 6 | When asked what frightens me most about London , I say , it is not the pinwheeled eyes of junkies on the street . |
| 7 | Public longing for such an idol of beauty may help to create temporary goddesses , seen in the popular eye as representatives of the Queen of Beauty . |
| 8 | Abruptly she looked up — straight into the night-black eyes of Naylor Massingham . |
| 9 | She was silently amused at the forms the approaches took : the clumsy grope from Bill Muggeridge ; the galumphing puppyishness of Corbett Farraday ; the appraising eye of Tom Tedder ( for either loyalty to Miss Gilberd , or lethargy , prevented anything more tangible ) . |
| 10 | I have recently read Laurens van der Post 's ‘ The Dark Eye in Africa ’ . |
| 11 | From the fixed eyes of girls , from their own |
| 12 | Just confirmed for publication in May is John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye with essays by Susan Casteras , Susan Phelps Gordon , Anthony Lacy Gully , Robert Hewison , George Landow and Christopher Newall . |
| 13 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 14 | the cold eye of Dolohov |
| 15 | From the blank eye of winter 's malsain winds , |
| 16 | He looks at the city through the diverse eyes of Kevin Kline 's anxious but sympathetic lawyer , Steve Martin 's greedily exploitative film maker and Danny Glover 's endangered tow-truck driver . |
| 17 | CARE nurse Mary Jane Hammond moves along the lines , wiping the infected eyes of children beyond tears . |
| 18 | Lord Whitelaw , a figure from the past , alighted from a black Rover , and , turning towards France in order to return the salutations of the mob , found himself staring into the bloodshot eyes of Class War . |
| 19 | As he walked on down Mouncy Street and into Decimus Street he could almost feel the curious eyes of Phil Jordan on his back . |
| 20 | Small wonder then , that the inexperienced eye of Charles Darwin mistook the warbler finch for a ‘ wren ’ or a warbler , and the cactus finch for a member of the oriole and black-bird family . |
| 21 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
| 22 | The fact that this revelation would doubtless be made in a context of privacy and confidentiality so as to insulate him as far as possible from the prying eyes of scandalmongers may not reduce his desire to put actual and legal distance between himself and his spouse . |
| 23 | I dressed and crept along the endless corridors until I found the staircase and slid silently down the banisters under the disapproving eye of Sir Mauger Grindlewood . |
| 24 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 25 | Brain-dead beauties with lips that gibber , lips that quiver , lips that mushroom to the size of minor continents before the startled eyes of glamour photographers . |
| 26 | Brain-dead beauties with lips that gibber , lips that quiver , lips that mushroom to the size of minor continents before the startled eyes of glamour photographers . |
| 27 | They both looked round , and met the startled eyes of Mrs Pigdon , the landlady . |
| 28 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |
| 29 | The endoscope , attached to a long probe , is manoeuvred into the statues though the tiny casting holes in the feet of both , through the head of A and the missing eye of B , and its movements controlled by a television monitor . |
| 30 | In the days of pastoral England , country people had gone to church under the stern eye of squire and parson , one of whom was almost certain to be the local magistrate . |