Example sentences of "eye for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 2 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 3 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 4 | You had to close your eyes for the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 5 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 6 | All these setbacks did n't matter , old chap , because the referee only has eyes for the big boys . |
| 7 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |
| 8 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 9 | The traditional division of language into the spoken and the written is clearly and sensibly based on a difference in production and reception : we use our mouths and ears for one , and our hands and eyes for the other . |
| 10 | Sung looked up , meeting Bergson 's cold grey eyes for the first time in their interview , then looked down again , understanding perfectly . |
| 11 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 12 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
| 13 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 14 | Richard Molesworth 's social rank ( he was nephew of the seventh Viscount Molesworth ) did not compensate in her mother 's eyes for the dangers of marrying a man with a violent temper ( supposedly caused by a head wound incurred in the Crimean war ) . |
| 15 | Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met . |
| 16 | A dispensing optician supplies glasses , but does n't test your child 's eyes for the prescription . |
| 17 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 18 | This time the chasm yawned in front of her , and she knew that she might close her eyes for the moment , but she was already taking little steps towards the edge . |
| 19 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 20 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 21 | But they told me that ‘ during your show we saw a flicker of response in his eyes for the very first time ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Make eyes for the whales with little discs of white fondant topped with smaller discs of black , and fix on to the whales with royal icing or a dampened paint brush . |
| 23 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 24 | ‘ I shut my eyes for the second one , ’ joked MacDonald . |
| 25 | Shocked , she looked him fully in the eyes for the first time . |
| 26 | But such simple tactics seemed beyond the inexperienced Hemel team , who were repeatedly caught out by American Jonathan Bow 's eye for the easy basket . |
| 27 | It 's not satire exactly , since Hayworth has too kindly an eye for the human condition . |
| 28 | Jane was cheered by his sagacity and quick eye for the ridiculous — a welcome change from pompous people like the Pyglings . |
| 29 | Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way . |
| 30 | Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . |