Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 2 | Hell was a wooden arch with a cloth tunnel behind it and a simple catch holding shut the green eye . |
| 3 | Then his startled gaze met the glowing eyes above the white patch of the handkerchief the man was holding at his mouth . |
| 4 | The Queen kept a sharp eye on the proceedings , and found it a favourable wet-day pastime to visit the Dolls ' House . |
| 5 | My elders in the newsroom kept a paternal eye on me , and approved if they saw me working on my Pitman 's . |
| 6 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 7 | A fleeting smile touched the green eyes . |
| 8 | The dog opened a lazy eye to watch them safe out . |
| 9 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 10 | A sardonic gleam entered the grey eyes as he paused . |
| 11 | The radical Mamba darabiner turned a few eyes on the DMM stand . |
| 12 | Their bachelor predecessor had no such eye and did not try to change it . |
| 13 | The 51-year-old victim suffered a serious eye injury in the attack by youths who drove from the scene laughing . |
| 14 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 15 | She had liked that idea , and thought somehow that her mother kept a watchful eye on her . |