Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.

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1 It is perhaps not to be wondered that when the clouds of war then appeared , those in high places turned a speculative eye on this , the greatest privately-owned railway organisation in the world , with facilities and space , equipped in a wide range , from precision tools to mighty hammers , forges , foundries , and a tradition of skilled craftsmanship grafted to modern organisational and administrative ability , for a possible source of production of the sinews of war .
2 Another report said one of the holidaymakers suffered a serious eye injury caused by flying glass .
3 Around the bay the hills had been cleared , and patches of emerald fields punctuated by tiny white-washed cottages carried the wistful eye back to the countryside of Ireland .
4 The trilobites produced the mosaic eye which has been retained by the insects .
5 Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple .
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