Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he set eyes on Albert , he knew that the old man was very sick indeed . |
| 2 | She 'd turn and run if she set eyes on me … but I thought … ’ |
| 3 | And bobbying and what it means , if you have eye on writing this sort of book , is what you will first have to absorb to the very marrow of your bones . |
| 4 | If we lock eyes with it we are unavoidably intimidating it , when this is the last thing we wish to do . |
| 5 | She would bewitch him , until he had eyes for nothing but her . |
| 6 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 7 | Ever since I laid eyes on Dominic Wetherby I 've been unable to rest . |
| 8 | But before I clap eyes on his miserable face , I intend to down as many cups of sack as I can ! |
| 9 | You were mine — I knew that as soon as I set eyes on you . |
| 10 | But as soon as I set eyes on you all rational thought deserted me . |
| 11 | Nutty 's eyes gleamed when she set eyes on the professional Sergeant Potter with four pistols in boxes and a load of shot and a thick wad of targets . |
| 12 | She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing . |
| 13 | She knew me to be a rogue as soon as she clapped eyes on me and , whilst her father ushered me to a seat , she watched girlishly out of the corner of her eye . |
| 14 | As soon as she set eyes on Giles Carnaby again she knew that whatever it was it was not a case of cure ; her heart thumped , she felt unstable . |
| 15 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 16 | Though when they set eyes on her , her sails were furled , to Ruth she looked magnificent . |
| 17 | There were men and women there who looked narrowly at Adam when they clapped eyes on him , and being alone with him in quiet places called him tentatively by name . |
| 18 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 19 | Who , when he lays eyes upon me , does not feel that he is seeing his king and his master ? ’ |