Example sentences of "eye [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 2 | The web of lines around Edward 's eyes wrinkled in a frown . |
| 3 | ‘ He looked over his shoulder at me , our eyes met for a split-second , then he rushed off and I screamed . |
| 4 | Their eyes met for a moment , then he looked away . |
| 5 | As he came through the hut again , the man was there , about to sign out , and their eyes met for a moment , and Cormack felt scared . |
| 6 | Their eyes met for a moment and Guido smiled back at her , flooding her heart with foolish pleasure . |
| 7 | Lear 's birds fill the page , stalking warily or glowering protectively over a half-dead prey ; his eagle owl , perhaps the most famous of all , glares menacingly from the shadows of twilight , its great yellow eyes mirrored by a lull moon . |
| 8 | Flipping lazily on to her back , she floated with her eyes closed for a moment , frowning as the sound of a door closing echoed around the pool . |
| 9 | Anorexic Primrose , thirteen years and five stones , delicate eyes closed against a world she refused to recognise , hands folded white and nun-like , or worse , beneath a sharp chin . |
| 10 | ‘ Nearly there now , ’ she said softly , and the fierce dark eyes opened for a moment . |
| 11 | Limping , sniffing , aware that the rain could have ruined her best velvet skirt , she stumbled along , her eyes peeled for a phone box . |
| 12 | Their eyes clashed for a moment , then Leonora shrugged . |
| 13 | His eyes lit with a gleam which frightened her badly . |
| 14 | Charlotte had been the first to make the connection ; her eyes lit with a spark of alert intelligence which was meant as a communication , and as briefly acknowledged by a warning flicker of George 's glance in her direction . |
| 15 | His swift intake of breath and the shock that flashed across his face mirrored her own as their eyes locked in a split-second of naked honesty . |
| 16 | She floated above and ahead of them , and her eyes narrowed onto a shimmer of water at a hairpin bend . |
| 17 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 18 | Ranging around the crowded bar , his eyes settled on a group by the window . |
| 19 | His eyes settled on a restaurant called Mr Scallini which had opened at 139 . |
| 20 | Leila , his girlfriend , has John Lennon 's other pair of glasses , but behind her pair are sparkling eyes set in a face that is always cheerful . |
| 21 | Their eyes collided with a force that deafened and blinded Isabel to everything else . |
| 22 | — behind eyes gone into a stillness beyond dancing |
| 23 | It can be quite difficult working at something with needle and yarn with your eyes glued to a diagram but this I had to do . |
| 24 | She looked hastily away — and found her eyes glued to a body that had no business being so magnetically attractive . |
| 25 | The woman was beautiful , her delicately fine face capped with shining ash-blonde hair , her blue eyes enhanced by a flutter of dark lashes . |
| 26 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 27 | Kate 's eyes burned with a fury that was fast reducing her to speechlessness . |
| 28 | Then his eye chanced on a sheet headed ‘ The Sparrows ’ . |
| 29 | But then her eye lit on a tank of juvenile Uaru … |
| 30 | Coffin 's eye rested on a detail in the photograph . |