Example sentences of "eye in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened his eyes in darkness and for a horrific moment he was completely adrift , not knowing what was happening or where — or who — he was . |
| 2 | He opened his eyes in darkness . |
| 3 | Rabbits ( and humans for that matter ) blink their eyes in response to an air puff directed towards the cornea . |
| 4 | Lesley 's niece , Beverley Spencer , 18 , said : ‘ She is on a life support unit but you can talk to her and she can flicker her eyes in response but that is about it . |
| 5 | When I approached and held a piece of chicken out to him he opened his eyes in surprise and at first refused to take it . |
| 6 | She opened her eyes in surprise . |
| 7 | And as I lay my eyes in wonder |
| 8 | She closed her eyes in dread . |
| 9 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 10 | And on them , talking and laughing , sat so many women that Folly closed her eyes in shock . |
| 11 | With a sense of endlessness contained only by a sense of the sea beyond , the earth slopes and drops away from one 's eyes in charcoal heaps of volcanic ash . |
| 12 | Fred nodded , rolling his eyes in irritation . |
| 13 | Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer . |
| 14 | To give up reason for revelation , he argued , is ‘ like putting out one 's eyes in order to look through a telescope ’ . |
| 15 | There are innumerable guides to public speaking that offer advice not only on preparing the material but how to make your voice resonant , ways to use your eyes in order to hold your audience , microphone techniques , and so on . |
| 16 | Her hair was plastered to her scalp , and she had to keep blinking and wiping her eyes in order to see at all . |
| 17 | Art historians may be interested in anything which requires the use of one 's eyes in order to understand it , from Chartres Cathedral and Michelangelo 's Moses to the signs and symbols of everyday life in twentieth-century society , and they may find the objects of their study anywhere from the sale rooms to the archaeologist 's excavation trench . |
| 18 | Connors raised his eyes in despair . |
| 19 | Feeling cut off , isolated , beyond help , she closed her eyes in despair . |
| 20 | He returned the wink , and Kathleen closed her eyes in despair . |
| 21 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 22 | She had been irritated by the cook 's refusal of her offer to make a simple white sauce , though Mrs Cranbrook was up to her eyes in work . |
| 23 | They 're up to their eyes in work . |
| 24 | Swod closed his eyes in thought . |
| 25 | Dot avoided the danger of the swivelling eyes in case they had the same compelling powers . |
| 26 | At this point all three friends felt an unruly wave of amusement sweeping over them , and the rest of the fire-drill was spent desperately avoiding each other 's eyes in case a fit of the giggles should descend , and they were all agreed ( especially Mildred ) that this would definitely not be the thing to do . |
| 27 | Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again , Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite . |
| 28 | He wo n't close his eyes in case you do something to him . |
| 29 | ‘ Was n't that a good day , ’ Finch said , closing his eyes in commemoration and then opening them to look fierce at the effrontery of somebody 's making up his dream . |
| 30 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |