Example sentences of "[vb past] an [adj] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're under the Clyde now , ’ he cast an intellectual eye at the roof of the carriage . |
| 2 | She cast an appraising eye over the clean kitchen and listened to the music of the sizzling pie . |
| 3 | Yet he saw the danger in making these communities an ideal , as he turned an anthropological eye on Christianity and perceived that such examples seem to proffer no solution to industrial urban and suburban existence — the way most people live . |
| 4 | Matt sent an appraising eye over her . |
| 5 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 6 | A cheeky innocence was imparted to the ruined photo by Nicola 's prominent front teeth : her vanity and the ambition to succeed in television must have made her pay later for cosmetic dental work , concluded Dexter , who had an acute eye for wigs worn by men and corsets by women . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Stanley Morison , responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s , was not an adroit penman — he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition . |