Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renée Kisling , the daughter of an officer , was as ardent a party-goer as her husband , a powerful woman capable of blacking the eye of any guest who wanted to slip out before a rowdy party broke up . |
| 2 | However , the patterns used in these studies were extremely coarse and could probably be discriminated by developing tricks like scanning the eyes across the stimuli and judging how much the brightness changes during the course of the scan . |
| 3 | It provided the leadership in February , it succeeded in opening the eyes of the more backward sections of the proletariat and the working masses to the reactionary nature of the petty-bourgeois and liberal parties , it welded the proletariat into an invincible revolutionary force and , drawing the poor peasants into alliance with them , it led the October revolution . |
| 4 | Galbraith has described the denomination of corporate enterprise as ‘ private enterprise ’ as ‘ a formula for hiding public business behind the cloak of corporate privacy ’ ; it is a device for diverting the eyes of government and the general public ‘ from things like executive compensation , lobbying , political activity by executives and employees , profits , and bureaucratic error or nonfeasance ’ . |
| 5 | Before me , and on either side , were high hills , which by hindering the eye from ranging , forced the mind to find entertainment for itself . ’ |