Example sentences of "'s eye for " 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 | Prince Charles , honoured by being momentarily cast a Chinese emperor , dabbed ink on the lion 's eyes for luck . |
| 3 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 7 | Burun held Rostov 's eyes for a moment . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | A dispensing optician supplies glasses , but does n't test your child 's eyes for the prescription . |
| 10 | Then , holding the younger woman 's eyes for a moment , she asked , ‘ Can I trust you , Ellie ? ’ |
| 11 | Then she deliberately held Ronni 's eyes for a moment . |
| 12 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Football : Non-League Notebook : Kelly 's eye for fist and chips |
| 15 | Beginning with the whirling bustle of the theatre scenes , Pierre L'homme 's camera and Rappeneau 's eye for detail turn more intimate moments like the balcony scene into a wondrous symphony of white light flecked with shadows . |
| 16 | Originally of rugby stock , but with a cricketer 's eye for a ball , he underwent a sea-change to become an excellent hockey player with calm skills and battling determination . |
| 17 | She was possessed of a fine and original mind ; she had the artist 's eye for subject , scene and colour . |
| 18 | With his Yorkshireman 's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process . |
| 19 | Thomas 's eye for practicality is particularly useful , and extends to addresses of electronics suppliers , and the price ( high ) of aequorin , a photoprotein . |
| 20 | We do n't all have Watkins ' advantages : a lifetime 's familiarity and sympathy with his native countryside ; the photographer 's eye for detail , for the unusual and for the properly framed view ; and the advantage of access to the countryside as part of his daily work . |
| 21 | He was drunk for sure and unafraid , of the barman , Paddy 's crutch , but stilt a miser 's eye for money . |
| 22 | Edouard de Chavigny 's eye for detail was well known ; no aspect , however small , connected with the running of his companies escaped his notice . |
| 23 | Sarah 's eye for a photogenic face has made her fortune . |
| 24 | Sarah 's eye for stardom is not just restricted to models . |
| 25 | But can an auction house ever hope to vet a customer 's finances with an auditor 's eye for the fine print ? |
| 26 | Billy Butlin 's eye for the hedonistic package outstripped all competitors . |
| 27 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 28 | The family lived in one of the Barratt houses and did not seem to Helen unduly prosperous , but clearly one was losing one 's eye for these things . |
| 29 | Jannie cleared the plates away , catching Bob 's eye for a moment and pushing her bottom lip up in mock guilt . |
| 30 | Douglas had an artist 's eye for the horrors — and also the absurdities — of battle . |