Example sentences of "eye of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain was pulled back and we sat looking into the eye of Reggie 's electric torch . |
| 2 | No such extravagance here , as under the watchful eye of Asquith , he launched into some of his best known songs . |
| 3 | Reynolds and Gainsborough were much indebted to Ramsay 's example , but being louder talents altogether , have tended in the eye of posterity to eclipse Ramsay 's quiet genius . |
| 4 | ‘ And the Deeds of Rogal Dorn thereafter compose an entire hagiography , which we will now start to consider in detail — commencing with our Primarch 's role in the expulsion of the renegade Iron Warriors from the Human Imperium into the forbidden zone known as the Eye of Chaos , a region about which we speak softly if at all … ’ |
| 5 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |
| 6 | Benjamin looked round the busy yard where servants were pulling out carts and hitching up horses under the watchful eye of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 7 | THERE was a wicked gleam in the eye of Paul Hodkinson as he watched Colin McMillan getting ripped apart in his WBO world featherweight title . |
| 8 | The endoscope , attached to a long probe , is manoeuvred into the statues though the tiny casting holes in the feet of both , through the head of A and the missing eye of B , and its movements controlled by a television monitor . |
| 9 | From the blank eye of winter 's malsain winds , |
| 10 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 11 | Since then , however , Scotland 's forward play , under the benevolent eye of Richie Dixon , has developed with pleasing continuity , particularly at the lineout , where in both the previous Five Nations games opposition machinations have been torn asunder rather like the post-war devastation in the Orson Welles screen classic . |
| 12 | Eye of newt , and toe of frog , |
| 13 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 14 | Lambs ' brains , fishes ' eggs and raw scallops , reminiscent of ‘ eye of newt , and toe of frog ’ , are redeemed only by plenty of garlic to keep the devil way . |
| 15 | They are a nice group , touring under the experienced eye of coach Intikhab Alam , the former Pakistan captain and Surrey player , with Harvard-educated Khalid Mahmood as the tour manager . |
| 16 | The arable coastal estates used the forest land as extensive swine pastures , with large herds roaming under the eye of swine-herds , whose camps occasionally provided the base of modern hamlets . |
| 17 | The Conservative Party 's new chairman , Chris Patten , has told Marxism Today of his interest in the German idea of a ‘ social market ’ , which believes it is possible to unleash capitalism 's efficiency but also to keep it under the supervising eye of society : to combine the engine of individualism and a communal conscience . |
| 18 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 19 | This sports another classic in the form of the Eye of Faith . |
| 20 | Never mind the trade routes of Stanage and Froggatt ; if you climb just the Eye of Faith and Moyer 's Buttress , your time at Gardom 's will be very well spent . |
| 21 | It is possible , with the eye of faith , to describe Goldney garden as Rococo in design , a remote cousin to Painswick in the Cotswolds . |
| 22 | Alter 10 generations , the phrase chosen for " breeding " was : MDLDMNLS ITJISWHRZREZ MECS P Alter 20 generations it was : MELDINLS IT ISWPRKE Z WECSEL By now , the eye of faith fancies that it can see a resemblance to the target phrase . |
| 23 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 24 | The palm bore the inverted cross and the Eye of Osiris and on the back a blood red pentangle . |
| 25 | the weak eye of Pierre |
| 26 | Nonetheless the eye of art and experience can interpret the electron micrographic chaos to pick out individual synapses , cell bodies , axons and dendrites and measure them . |
| 27 | In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers . |
| 28 | At the knitting workshop at Rowan 's mill in Holmfirth , we had the chance to design our own knitted samples under the watchful eye of Rowan designers Annabel Fox and Jean Moss . |
| 29 | It was , it was indeed , a virus so small that the eye of man had never seen it before . |
| 30 | the cold eye of Dolohov |