Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] eye [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not a dry eye in the house as Mr Punch and a startled Toby perform ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , by Trevor Holte , August 1990 . |
| 2 | Not a dry eye in the … |
| 3 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 4 | There was n't a dry eye on the set when Toby , 27 , and Sara , 26 , announced they were going to get married . |
| 5 | There was n't a dry eye in the house . |
| 6 | There was n't a dry eye in the house . |
| 7 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |