Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you peered into the hundred eyes of a scallop , a hundred upside-down views of yourself would peer back . |
| 2 | Eyebrows rose above the blue eyes and the pale , squashed face frowned , with impatience very close below the surface . |
| 3 | She dabbed at a watery eye . |
| 4 | Worn as an amulet they even warded off the evil eye and , in a more generalised form , are still carried for this purpose by Italians today . |
| 5 | Instead wrong-doers , or even the mischievous who came under the stern eye of the chief dresser , were sent off home to their parents , and like-as-not , a strapping . |
| 6 | All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals . |
| 7 | A delighted twinkle danced in the cornflower-blue eyes . |
| 8 | A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 9 | The old light of paranoia showed in the feverish eyes . |
| 10 | Pleasure shone in the expressive eyes . |
| 11 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
| 12 | Rex made with the crossed eyes and suitably pained expression . |
| 13 | On May 29th , the day after voting was completed in Cambodia 's election , Mr Akashi coloured in the second eye , to signify that the mission was accomplished . |
| 14 | Malevolent amusement gleamed from the shadowed eyes . |
| 15 | Araminta , ’ he amended as the pale eyes turned upon him in gentle reproach , ‘ there is no need . |
| 16 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 17 | With a flourish he removed the cover and revealed to the incredulous eyes of the staff a feast of sausages and bacon . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in the course of the years , there were some letters that were painful , and meant for no other eyes ; and no other eyes will see them . |
| 19 | Evelyn stared into the blue eyes , willing them to give a flicker of understanding , of forgiveness . |
| 20 | Moore stared into the cruel eyes , like a bird watching a cat . |
| 21 | Finn stood there helplessly for a moment , his own breath coming in gasps as he looked into the wild eyes of his superior . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , even catering for the eloquence of the after-dinner story teller , this abrupt introduction of Doctor Who into the Serials Department does serve to give an insight into two men who shaped much of what later went before the cold eyes of the BBC cameras . |
| 23 | He also gave me his own way of planning little dialogues , and his technique of distinguishing the three tones of the language , which could alter the meaning of what looked to an English eye to be the same word , often with unexpected , humorous or even disastrous effect . |
| 24 | It stared at the good eye moving frantically in its socket . |
| 25 | The guard , still slumped on the floor , gazed at the slate-grey eyes behind the glasses . |
| 26 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 27 | The steel flashed behind the velvety eyes . |
| 28 | They were safe as long as they remained within the central eye of the storm . |