Example sentences of "eye on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 2 | Now you two try to get some sleep and I 'll keep me eyes on that platform . |
| 3 | Turning to a school photograph next to the oak coffin , he added : ‘ We look into his eyes on that wonderful photograph but his eyes are still . |
| 4 | That 's where you get your power from for messing about with horses , just keeping your eyes on that particular bone . |
| 5 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 6 | Councillor he 's had his greedy little eyes on that area for years . |
| 7 | Ashton , however , has his eyes on other vehicles . |
| 8 | For the future , the company has its eyes on scaled-up versions to carry 200 to 250 passengers and is studying other ways to apply aspects of AP1-88 technology . |
| 9 | The gena ( Fig. 5 ) forms the whole of the lateral area below and posterior to the eyes on each side ; near its junction with the clypeus is a facet for articulation with the ginglymus of the mandible and proximally it bears a cavity which receives the mandibular condyle . |
| 10 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 11 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 12 | The moment we set eyes on each other … six years ago . ’ |
| 13 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 15 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 16 | However , with its eyes on new markets , Digital Equipment Corp value-added reseller Aran Ltd , Thatcham , Berkshire , acquired the products , contracts and 20 of the 25 staff employed by Transaction Point . |
| 17 | and close your eyes on passing lights , |
| 18 | After a while , however , she forced herself to smile , and dried her eyes on one of Fleury 's shirt sleeves that looked fairly clean . |
| 19 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 20 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 21 | A tuft of hair on the front of the body helps them to check that their motion through the air is straight , but their primary navigational guidance comes from huge mosaic eyes on either side of the head , which provide superbly accurate and detailed vision . |
| 22 | Besides the Titanic , Nicholson and his colleagues have their eyes on several suspected Roman , Greek and other ancient wrecks in the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | If you hunger for a totally monochrome kitchen , feast your eyes on these goodies . |
| 24 | Indeed , my lord , it is plain that the people are as much determined to reject the posterity of our late king that , if Your Grace will not accept the crown , they must turn their eyes on some other person ’ . ' |
| 25 | He will fix his eyes on some spot that he thinks he knows and watch it intently as the day fades , hoping to be able to plot any light that may appear later on . |
| 26 | She took off her underclothes — bending , high-stepping — eyes on some distant thought . |
| 27 | If you are just happy to dream , feast your eyes on this selection of motoring marvels , as seen through the eyes of our motoring correspondent , Peter Jones . |
| 28 | they have their eyes on this land . |
| 29 | FEAST your eyes on this little dazzler — a gem in a million . |
| 30 | Anyway , at Fontainebleau the doors were thrown open so we could feast our eyes on this Most Christian of Kings . |