Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a bad eye . |
| 2 | Feeling in one of the pockets I found a black eye patch for added colour and realised that my crew were endorsing the senior officer 's joke about piracy in the Channel . |
| 3 | At last , as I set my knife and fork down , I caught the gloomy eye of my table-companion and ventured to say , ‘ You will be in Geneva tomorrow in time to see this wretched woman brought to justice , I presume ? ’ |
| 4 | But with being a keen golfer , I developed a keen eye for a golf ball and a distance . |
| 5 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 6 | I kept a wary eye open for any of my old friends , in particular the goldsmith Waller , even as I was distracted by the sight of the apprentices throwing their caps in the air as they shouted for custom , pompous city officials in their fur-lined robes and , of course , those beauties of the night , the high-class courtesans in their satin dresses and flowery head veils . |
| 7 | I kept a wary eye on Santerre for this bluff manor lord , usually afraid of nothing , stayed near the door like a child frightened of a dark , strange room . |
| 8 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 9 | She paused , feeling a shiver work its way down her spine as she met the black eyes that were regarding her so closely now . |
| 10 | You got a black eye ? |
| 11 | She made the mischievous eyes look at her and one finger pointed at the ladybird , another drew her gaze downwards to the lake . |
| 12 | She cast a malevolent eye at the window as a squall of rain battered the glass , then began an inspection of supplies . |
| 13 | She cast a speculative eye on Lucy Lane . |
| 14 | She cast an appraising eye over the clean kitchen and listened to the music of the sizzling pie . |
| 15 | She fixed a baleful eye on Angelica , and said , ‘ If ever they bring back hanging , I would n't advise you to apply for the job . ’ |
| 16 | She forgot her dream as she saw the blue eyes darken almost to black . |
| 17 | She saw the wistful eyes , the carefully contained emotion , and the long , lost years came rushing back to choke her . |
| 18 | She kept a watchful eye on any leaks that might have sprung . |
| 19 | She was virtually retired these days , her hotel ( where Coffin had once lived ) turned into small flats over whose tenants she kept a stern eye . |
| 20 | The tabloids seemed hell-bent on knocking Diana off the pedestal they had put her on , determined to prove , or invent if necessary , that she had a roving eye . |
| 21 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 22 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 23 | There are wonderful paintings collected by earlier monarchs who had a better eye . |
| 24 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 25 | A cheeky innocence was imparted to the ruined photo by Nicola 's prominent front teeth : her vanity and the ambition to succeed in television must have made her pay later for cosmetic dental work , concluded Dexter , who had an acute eye for wigs worn by men and corsets by women . |
| 26 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 27 | She had recorded in her journal everything which had happened to her since she had arrived in London and she wanted no prying eyes to read what she had written . |
| 28 | It featured Shaun and Bez again , ‘ off our heads , in full throttle , coming out with all sorts of shit ’ , except this time no one turned a blind eye , offered excuses or mildly slapped their wrists . |
| 29 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 30 | The staff knew what was going on but they turned a blind eye . |