Example sentences of "eye [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their eyes the sea curves off into the heavens . |
| 2 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 3 | To my unadapted eyes the scene looked as bleached-out as an over-exposed snapshot . |
| 4 | This time he did n't pretend to be other than he was , a writer in exile from his own class , setting out to see with his own eyes the state of emergency among the Northern unemployed . |
| 5 | As soon as he opened his eyes the child remembered , and his heart soared . |
| 6 | To Sharpe 's eyes the battalion 's musket drill was lamentably slow , but it did not matter ; they were fighting . |
| 7 | His great worry was literally following in hid mind 's eyes the squadron 's contribution to the target that night and wondering how they were getting on . |
| 8 | Were Stella 's eyes the motiue for this crime , |
| 9 | I paused dramatically and raked the audience with my eyes the way I had seen Quigley do . |
| 10 | In her eyes the marriage was good , life with Robert was still exciting , he was ambitious and popular at court , and he also kept her in a high degree of affluence . |
| 11 | ‘ With all its eyes the creature-world beholds |
| 12 | To European eyes the brute physicality of Mehmet Memo Sander , a Turkish-born movement-performer now resident in California , is quite phenomenal . |
| 13 | The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers . |
| 14 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 15 | She pulled herself straight and directed into his sleepy eyes the look she usually reserved for teachers and principals . |
| 16 | In their eyes the porter read only |
| 17 | Andrew and Virginia watched numbly as Horatia went to the door , returning a moment or two later with a small boy with silver-gold hair and eyes the colour of aquamarines . |
| 18 | Eyes the colour of gathering storm-clouds did not leave his face . |
| 19 | As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate . |
| 20 | Although he was ready to accept the shortcomings of the Soviet state in its current phase of historical development — " it is true that Soviet society is harsh and that many of its citizens are not philanthropists " — the harshness of Soviet society , however , can in no sense invalidate in Nizan 's eyes the justice of its struggle against the remaining vestiges of the capitalist mentality in the consciousness of the Soviet people . |
| 21 | In her eyes the madness of a starvation that will be satiated , the tempered contempt of one who will survive . |
| 22 | In Nizan 's eyes the world was essentially divided into Good and Evil : those working for the forces of Good who produced revolutionary , disquieting literature ; those working for the forces of Evil who produced reactionary , politely complacent literature . |
| 23 | To Rincewind 's eyes the world was suddenly lit by a flickering octarine light , tinged with violet as photons impacted on the sudden magical aura . |
| 24 | In Whitaker 's eyes the suffix Who in the Doctor 's title would refer to mystery rather than amnesia . |
| 25 | He had not deliberately marked it but to his eyes the pattern of tiny scratches on the handle was as good as a signature . |
| 26 | If two people have got blue eyes the mother and father the children always have blue eyes I think If the mother 's got brown and the father 's got brown they do n't have a blue eyed child . |
| 27 | The young policeman was , as Alice was not surprised to see , trying to locate with his eyes the place in the garden these crazies had buried … |
| 28 | Numerous collisions result , yet — such is the nature of class conflict in Britain — no damage is done , and the respective crews pass on their way as though oblivious of each other , hiding in silence and averted eyes the embarrassment of foreigners with no common language . |
| 29 | From the despair in the parson 's eyes the doctor saw that this remedy had already been tried to no avail . |
| 30 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |