Example sentences of "'s eye [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billowing smoke from the fire made the white woman 's eyes water . |
| 2 | In his mind 's eyes Lexandro could no longer quite capture nor comprehend the essentially alien anatomy of his quondam sisters . |
| 3 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 4 | The widow 's eye make-up had transferred itself to Marilyn Thompson 's handkerchief . |
| 5 | Yves Saint Laurent 's Eye Make-up Remover — not cheap at £9.50 , but highly recommended . |
| 6 | Starting at the top , the Vision 's eye level grill is a top performer . |
| 7 | The Bird 's Eye stuff you know ? |
| 8 | This makes the figure identical to the ‘ lazy eight ’ where the nose of the model does not actually cross the pilot 's eye line . |
| 9 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 10 | Peter Brook takes a child 's eye view of the Lord of the Flies ( 1963 ) |
| 11 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 12 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 13 | Or ‘ I 've always wanted a bird 's eye view of the garden ’ ? |
| 14 | In architecture , the worm 's eye view is rarely required . |
| 15 | A bird 's eye view of Chesterfield Central circa 1940 , taken from the highest point it is possible to reach in the town — the top of the church steeple . |
| 16 | STORIA 5 : A WOMAN 'S EYE VIEW OF BRITAIN TODAY |
| 17 | What a place to view not only the entire ridge-walk we had completed , but the majesty of Ben Nevis , the tips of the Glencoe mountains peeking over the edge of the Mamores to the south and the most perfect eagle 's eye view up to the head of Glen Nevis . |
| 18 | A good selective bibliography gives a bird 's eye view of the subject literature , and where a reliable source of this kind already exists , stock revision in the subject area is considerably simplified . |
| 19 | They usually build up to a God 's eye view of the causal processes slowly , starting from a simple relationship , imagining how it might be more complex , testing to see if that is in fact the case , and so on . |
| 20 | BIRD 'S EYE VIEW |
| 21 | Linda Fraser gives us a bird 's eye view of this festive meat and makes saucy comments about cranberries |
| 22 | At 10 degrees off the vertical , shadows and a degree of ‘ depth ’ convey a bird 's eye view impression , and the surrounding activity begins to contribute interest to the photograph . |
| 23 | In the evening and at dawn the whole bird 's eye view was bathed in a mysterious light , ‘ like a Ruysdael or Van der Meer . ’ |
| 24 | Green Park , Hans Unger : a bird 's eye view of the trees in the park , changed to a leaf profile in 1979 to match the Jubilee Line . |
| 25 | BIRD 'S EYE VIEW : Dickie Bird 's 47th Test leaves him one short of the record |
| 26 | Edited by Richard Evans , who oversees some of the world 's greatest tennis tournaments , the book offers a bird 's eye view of the Tour , not least because of some of the superb colour photography contained within it . |
| 27 | Angus Wilson claimed to have read and reread Richardson 's Clarissa , for all its immense bulk , starting at the age of eighteen , admiring above all its triumphant creation of fantasy out of realistic detail — a realism made transcendent — though he also admired the ‘ God 's eye view ’ of the great nineteenth-century novels . |
| 28 | Just as the young Richard — the name means Rule-Hard — saw the Man as Hero in struggle and song , so the child 's eye view saw the Woman as Noble , Wonderful and infinitely Capable . |
| 29 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 30 | ‘ Child 's Eye View ’ features 30 contemporary novels which explore the light and dark sides of childhood . |