Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] eye [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused , feeling a shiver work its way down her spine as she met the black eyes that were regarding her so closely now . |
| 2 | When volunteers were called for to drop on a remote Yugoslavian mountain , their packs laden with gelignite to blow up bridges , I carefully avoided the challenging eye and the demanding notice board . |
| 3 | A sardonic gleam entered the grey eyes as he paused . |
| 4 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 5 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 6 | He opened a bleary eye and growled , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ |
| 7 | Luke opened a bloodshot eye and grinned triumphantly . |
| 8 | He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep . |
| 9 | Burnished by magic , they deflected the threatening eye and found unwitting allies in men and women who , all unknowing , knew holiness ; became sanctuaries for a secret few . |
| 10 | Alejandro , fed up with Raimundo 's laziness and his exorbitant whining demands , was put in such a good mood when he saw the black eye that he agreed that Perdita could take over the breaking of little Tero . |
| 11 | Now , we very rarely went up to the great city and , when we did , Benjamin kept a close eye and a tight rein on me . |
| 12 | Mowbray remembered the dark eyes and closed face of the Dominican monk . |
| 13 | All had the dark eyes and dark curls of their father . |
| 14 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 15 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 16 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 17 | He had a black eye and there was a great dark bruise down one side of his face . |
| 18 | He had a black eye and he was limping . |
| 19 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 20 | Their bachelor predecessor had no such eye and did not try to change it . |