Example sentences of "eye [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids .
2 The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss .
3 Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam .
4 As they left , Kate glanced back , her eyes searching for the shawl .
5 No familiar McGowran use of the eyes to show for the passing of years .
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