Example sentences of "his [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaning on the edge of his table , he let his hollow eyes rest on Nicholas . |
| 2 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
| 3 | His blind-filmed eyes stared at it , all but unwinking . |
| 4 | Sandison drew out a handkerchief , mopped his brow and then positioned the hat carefully on his head , very slightly tilted over his right eye . |
| 5 | The Judge found in favour of Sergt. Kerr … but for the plaintiff against P. C. Neame for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment , assessing the damages at £100 with costs … it was alleged the plaintiff was struck by both police officers and severely handled in the street and in the Bridewell , with the result that he received an injury to his right eye which necessitated its removal in hospital … |
| 6 | Under closer examination a picture of a vagina was unmistakably blended with his hair , while the word ‘ SEX ’ nestled in the shadow of his right eye and beneath the knuckles of his left hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Ginger hair , tanned face and that scar , stretching from his right eye to his mouth . |
| 8 | Then , during the World Cup final , he clashed heads with England winger Simon Halliday and suffered a cut above his right eye — an injury which can be quite bothersome for a full-back , especially when attempting to gather high balls . |
| 9 | Then , as slowly and deliberately as before , Macmillan drew from an inside pocket of his coat a smallish piece of paper and raised it to within a couple of inches of his right eye . |
| 10 | A BUILDER was blinded in his right eye by two thugs who stamped repeatedly on his head . |
| 11 | He tapped his right eye with his fore finger . |
| 12 | Then this year they had to remove his right eye . |
| 13 | His right eye was hidden but the left leered at her with a dreadful knowingness . |
| 14 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 15 | He lost his right eye fighting against Chaos warbands in the Drakwald forest . |
| 16 | The huge wooden gates were opened by a legionnaire in combat kit with a FA-MAS assault rifle slung across his chest , and his beret tilted over his right eye ; we drew up in front of a five-storey building and got out . |
| 17 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 18 | Soon he could no longer bear to apply the scorching lens to his right eye and was obliged to hold it to his left , which he did more clumsily than ever . |
| 19 | His right eye is tired , so that it lags minutely behind the other . |
| 20 | ‘ Why should I ? ’ he said , fingering a great purple bruise under his right eye . |
| 21 | ‘ Every morning this time the bus is full of nuts , ’ the driver said with violence , not even visibly addressing me , though his right eye was glaring at me in his driving mirror . |
| 22 | He 's nearly a year old now , but his right eye is still getting darker , while his left eye is staying firmly blue . |
| 23 | Tara , with his lumberjack shirt and messy hair than hangs irritatingly over his right eye ; Paul with his pudding bowl cut and lightly flared jeans ( their sole acknowledgement of prevailing fashion trends ) and Phil with his goofy grin and ramshackle cut . |
| 24 | In 1912 he lost his right eye in a car accident . |
| 25 | His expression was grim and a muscle above his right eye started to twitch . |
| 26 | She put her hands on the bedspread , looked into his eyes , an anxious searching as her gaze shifted about his face , first focusing on his right eye , then his left , then slipping to his mouth . |
| 27 | His right eye had two pupils in it , side by side in the grey whites . |
| 28 | As for his right eye , this was a perfect startling blue , gazing out blankly from beneath a solitary tuft of eyebrow . |
| 29 | He was a willowy boy , firm of body ; his hair was fair , and a lock fell over his right eye . |
| 30 | He got a bruising whack in his right eye — the one he uses to peer through his telescope at the stars . |