Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | He twinkled the blue eyes at her . |
| 2 | He cast a professional eye over the report . |
| 3 | Karl , as it were , added the italics as he cast a speculative eye over a huge grey building which loomed over the avenue like a battleship over a flotilla of cargo boats and from which , in the still , clear air , hung a vast flag , red , with a golden hammer and sickle emblazoned on it . |
| 4 | He cast a scathing eye at the rows of bottles . |
| 5 | He cast a shrewd eye at her . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're under the Clyde now , ’ he cast an intellectual eye at the roof of the carriage . |
| 7 | For his pains he received a black eye , a bloodied nose , a split lip , two skinned knees , several bruised ribs and four strokes of the cane on each hand for fighting on school premises . |
| 8 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 9 | AI has received reports indicating that he suffered a severe eye injury as a result of beatings during interrogation . |
| 10 | Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He opened a bleary eye and growled , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ |
| 13 | He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep . |
| 14 | Alejandro , fed up with Raimundo 's laziness and his exorbitant whining demands , was put in such a good mood when he saw the black eye that he agreed that Perdita could take over the breaking of little Tero . |
| 15 | She was exquisite , even in a shabby dark gown , and as she came up to him he saw the luminous eyes filled with what he most wanted to see . |
| 16 | He kept a sharp eye on her , though the path was well lit and there was little fear of stumbling . |
| 17 | Inside the government , he kept a close eye on the development of policy and frequently intervened to prod ministers in desired directions . |
| 18 | Once across the allotments he walked more openly , even though he kept a wary eye out behind him . |
| 19 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 20 | He had a black eye and there was a great dark bruise down one side of his face . |
| 21 | He had a black eye and he was limping . |
| 22 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 23 | He had a good eye for a defensible site , had St Kentigern . ’ |
| 24 | The baby on the way was all that the marriage had going for it , and even then , if Rachel was n't around , he had a roving eye , and sometimes more than an eye , although at that stage he was technically faithful , I think . |
| 25 | He had a shrewd eye for the false and the fraud . |
| 26 | He had a bad eye , fixed , with a sinister pallor . |
| 27 | He had joined the merchant navy — Rory had asked dad about that — but he had an artificial eye , not a patch . |
| 28 | She opened the door , and he ran a critical eye over her before nodding . |
| 29 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |