Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [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 | Now when I say a black eye I mean one that actually looks blue-black and is quite swollen . |
| 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 keep a constant eye on what I eat and how much weight I put on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I cast a languishing Eye upon the Waggon Yesterday . |
| 10 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 11 | The second record in a series called The Indestructible Beat of Soweto — a title which shows a sharp eye for selling to the South African solidarity market . |
| 12 | You got a black eye ? |
| 13 | Moving in the kind of world she does , she has a real eye for what looks good . ’ |
| 14 | She has a sharp eye for a toyboy . |
| 15 | She cast a malevolent eye at the window as a squall of rain battered the glass , then began an inspection of supplies . |
| 16 | She cast a speculative eye on Lucy Lane . |
| 17 | She cast an appraising eye over the clean kitchen and listened to the music of the sizzling pie . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why have you got a black eye ? ’ the child asked , a moment later . |
| 20 | The very best flats have a resident caretaker who keeps a watchful eye over the block and is there to help in emergencies . |
| 21 | ANY golfer will tell you that you stand little chance of winning unless you keep a close eye on the scorecard . |
| 22 | Make sure you keep a careful eye on it — it 's a gem and just as precious ! |
| 23 | You turn a blind eye is n't it ? |
| 24 | She kept a watchful eye on any leaks that might have sprung . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If you cast a shrewd eye around the countryside in March , you can not fail to notice that spring is heralded not only by splashes of yellow celandines and pale primroses in the hedge-banks , but also by gleaming yellow diggers , hastily working their way up the watercourses to use up their allocated budget before the financial year ends on 1 April . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |