Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once in Amedeo 's company everyone agrees that she ‘ only had eyes for him ’ . |
| 2 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 3 | No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly . |
| 4 | Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're going to regret the day you ever laid eyes on Matthew , ’ Sandra hissed . |
| 6 | Her weird , rather witchlike appearance always drew eyes ; who could ignore that bony frame in its tent of an ethnic dress , those rimless spectacles and thin bloodless lips under spikes of white hair radiating all round her head ? |
| 7 | Guy watched her through dangerously slitted eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 9 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 10 | ‘ Irridek , ’ he breathed , lifting his head to stare into her stunned face with blackly dilated eyes . |
| 11 | His face was fleshy , the dark hair receding from a high speckled forehead , the long upper lip as precisely curved as an arrowhead , and the full , heavily lidded eyes dark and very bright , giving his face a look of sardonic , humorous intelligence . |
| 12 | Girls with white faces and heavily kohled eyes hurried out towards Praed Street , as if hastening to appointments with abortionists in seedy consulting-rooms behind the Edgeware Road . |
| 13 | He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with . |
| 14 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 15 | As Bailey said , the two of them never saw eye to eye . |
| 16 | For some reason , we never saw eye to eye . |