Example sentences of "['s] eye [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 2 | Lucenzo 's eyes had strayed to the child , who was contentedly wrapped in his father 's embrace . |
| 3 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 4 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 5 | After a moment Fenella 's eyes grew used to the dimness and she could see quite plainly into the room . |
| 6 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 7 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |