Example sentences of "and [pron] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he has done it largely with and for local schoolchildren : ‘ The children are my ears and my eyes and my workforce . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 3 | He sipped his gin and tonic , and my eyes flitted to his gold watch and his gold bracelet . |
| 4 | My nose never smelt such noisome smells , and my eyes never beheld such ghastly spectacles ’ . |
| 5 | Sometimes on the rostrum I get a lump in the throat and my eyes well up . |
| 6 | And the lights were so bright that I could hardly bear it and my eyes are still burning . |
| 7 | ‘ And Theo , ’ he confided , ‘ when I pass on the heath here such a woman with a child on her arm , it pierces me right through , the melancholy , and my eyes get moist . ’ |
| 8 | I lay on my bed and my eyes finally fell shut . |
| 9 | I have to stare at it very hard , Miss Honey , very very hard , and then I can feel it all happening behind my eyes , and my eyes get hot just as though they were burning but I do n't mind that in the least , and Miss Honey … |
| 10 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 11 | My nose started to bleed and my eyes streamed with water . |
| 12 | I followed , even more warily , and my eyes confirmed what I did not want to believe . |
| 13 | I 've never really had the good fortune to watch a fly 's last moments on Earth before , and my eyes are just glued to this small splodge of legs and wings which are interrupting the clean , shiny surface of the screen . |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 15 | He , too , was smiling , but with sardonic ambiguity , and my eyes shifted to his ceremonial dagger . |
| 16 | I was shaking and my eyes were blurred . |
| 17 | I yawned and my eyes closed involuntarily . |
| 18 | I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted . |
| 19 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 20 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
| 21 | I was pale and my eyes were wild . |
| 22 | And my eyes pause |
| 23 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 24 | It was directly in the centre and my eyes focused intensely on it . |
| 25 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 26 | I let my mouth fall open and set my glass down heavily on the table , allowing my head to fall back against the chair and my eyes to close , in the imitation of unconsciousness . |
| 27 | and my eyes floating |
| 28 | and my eyes are politely fixed on his little moustache : |
| 29 | The dancers opened and my eyes met Pike 's . |
| 30 | Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes ? |