Example sentences of "[pron] eye at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 2 | I would tut at people trying to climb in wellingtons , and roll my eyes at those in jeans . |
| 3 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 4 | and there 's nothing wrong with my eyes at all , they said dry . |
| 5 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 6 | I lay silently , expecting my grandfather to materialize in front of my eyes at any moment . |
| 7 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 8 | I just co close my eyes at it |
| 9 | Though many pieces caught my eye at Harrow , space limits my personal choice . |
| 10 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 11 | I have my eye at the moment on the little-visited town of Amman , capital of Transjordan , which I am told is charming . |
| 12 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 13 | Many people were said to have had tears in their eyes at hearing the Führer 's voice again . |
| 14 | He enjoyed the fury , not always speechless , of the good Conservatives who occasionally had to stand in the corridor , popping their eyes at this spectacle of enthroned privilege . |
| 15 | The more seasoned tasters , I saw , were rolling the wine round their tongues and their eyes at the ceiling , after which they spat out the wines in the receptacles provided . |
| 16 | A correction of this distorted male-oriented perspective involves going back to women themselves and looking through their eyes at the occupation of housewife . |
| 17 | The insect-eaters , however , get such an accurate picture of their surroundings from their sonar that they hardly use their eyes at all . |
| 18 | Her eyes roamed over the chattering women , all fawning over him , tossing their heads , slanting their eyes at him and laughing prettily . |
| 19 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |
| 20 | They flash their eyes at each other so much you 'd think they were rehearsing a scene from Carmen . |
| 21 | Charity closed her eyes at Nigel in distaste and asked coldly , ‘ In case of what ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That silly old bugger , ’ Zylpha the beauty said , jangling her coral and amber beads and flashing her eyes at Otley . |
| 23 | Jahsaxa flashed her eyes at the doctor . |
| 24 | No way he , Zitney Trench could tell her , Claudettina Wolveridge , née Schlitz , the way he felt when she half-closed her eyes at him , or reached up to take a box-file down from the section marked ‘ Insolvency ’ . |
| 25 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 26 | She rolled her eyes at him , put the glass to her lips and drank the brandy , a small nip . |
| 27 | ‘ Then go to Pricewell 's , ’ Anna said , closing her eyes at the thought of telling Peter . |
| 28 | Margaret rolled her eyes at the ceiling . |
| 29 | She wavered her eyes at him , but he was n't going to hand her anything more , for she knew perfectly well she was pretty . |
| 30 | Cleo narrowed her eyes at him in approximation of a sympathetic glance , although in her heart she felt no pity at all . |