Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly smiled politely as the man tried to focus his eyes on her . |
| 2 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 3 | He tried to keep his eyes on her face as she examined him thoroughly , declared him fit , warned him to take it easy for a day or two and to drink sparingly because of the risk of delayed shock . |
| 4 | I think he had his eyes , he 'd got his eyes on Tettron replacing |
| 5 | He said he was sorry and normally obeyed all the driving rules , but this time failed to keep his eye on the speedometer as he made his way to Birmingham . |
| 6 | Toby decided to keep his eye on Hilary Frome . |
| 7 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 8 | When he managed to turn his eyes from them he saw Liessa glaring down at him in fury . |
| 9 | But nothing came and a little before dawn the wind eased and he managed to close his eyes in the shelter of the old oak tree in which he had taken stance . |
| 10 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 11 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 12 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 13 | Steve continued to fix his eye on me before adding finally , ‘ Because I 've got nothing to say . ’ |
| 14 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 15 | Without any difficulty Coffin identified Chief Inspector Salter and one of his inspectors , a man called Stoker , said to have his eye on the main chance . |
| 16 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |
| 17 | Thiercelin stood straining his eyes into the gloom . |