Example sentences of "eye [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't keep his eyes off Ace . |
| 2 | I 've settled with her ; she knows her place , ’ Rose said over her shoulder , not taking her eyes off Coffin 's face . |
| 3 | In some numbers he wrote half the contents ; in others , especially at the time of an operation on his eyes for glaucoma , little . |
| 4 | Prince Charles , honoured by being momentarily cast a Chinese emperor , dabbed ink on the lion 's eyes for luck . |
| 5 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 6 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 7 | Paint your eyes for Daddy |
| 8 | Turns towards the horse and whispers in a language almost Hindi — eyes match eyes for kindliness . |
| 9 | T. D. The discipline was tyranny but it was n't bad for us — two policemen walking along the road together , talking about women or football like everybody else , and they ca n't keep their eyes for crime or for offences being committed under their noses . |
| 10 | Mr Lambert took a deep breath and closed his eyes for strength . |
| 11 | She was on edge as it was , heart jumping , deeply aware of that hard body , the black polo shirt that had constantly drawn her eyes during dinner , her X-ray eyes seeing every muscle , sinew , hair on his chest . |
| 12 | They admit he is charming , but fingers point to his eyes as warning signs , demonic pin points . |
| 13 | I 've heard such a lot about the risks to eyes after infection with dog dirt and I 'm very worried . |
| 14 | The fact that the agreement is sustained by threats of market sanctions rather than a binding contract makes it no less explicit , at least in the eyes of antitrust law . |
| 15 | But it is not only the speech , it is also the simplicity of the vocabulary , as it is seen through the eyes of Finn . |
| 16 | In conclusion I would say that the book itself is good and the style is brilliant , as you are able to see things so well through the eyes of Finn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness . |
| 19 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 20 | I tell ya , it threw me having those tormented eyes of Clift staring just above me . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Originally scheduled for the United States in October , the switch has been made because of the current state of anarchy in American offshore politics , particularly in the eyes of championship promoter , Mario Revenna , of Italy . |
| 24 | Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU . |
| 25 | The new economic freedom in Russia and today 's new private capital needs not only to grow , but to find some moral refinement and justification in the eyes of society . |
| 26 | However irksome it may be to have inaccuracies published about one 's life or behaviour — dates mis-stated , non-existent meetings described , and qualifications mis-attributed — there must be a " sting " in the falsehood which reflects discredit in the eyes of society . |
| 27 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 28 | She is a more acceptable creature in the eyes of society than the domineering Mrs. Proudie . |
| 29 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 30 | Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay . |