Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set , widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows , a well-shaped , rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon . |
| 2 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 3 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 4 | And the astonishingly big calf coming out with a slippery rush and then , a few minutes later , standing up in the straw on its thin , wobbly legs , its thickly lashed eyes mild and brown like its mother 's . |
| 5 | For the first time she risked a glance at that dark Renaissance face with its clear-cut features and winged brows , the beautiful , thickly lashed eyes and chiselled mouth , the cleft chin and strong jaw . |
| 6 | She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’ |
| 7 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 8 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 9 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 10 | In amphisbaenians , well adapted to their burrowing lives , with vestigial or non-existent limbs and much reduced eyes , the skull is very heavily ossified and box-like to enable it to be rammed through the soil , and so the orbitosphenoid is a thick plate of bone . |
| 11 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 12 | Two etchings of early 1912 , Fox by Braque and Still Life with Bottle by Picasso , would , if unsigned , present a problem of identification except to the highly trained eye . |
| 13 | Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic . |
| 14 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
| 15 | He who sees has not got eyes , |
| 16 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 17 | Now I comes to think on it , I 've not set eyes on Black Will since afore we went to the Garden Tower last evening . ’ |
| 18 | I 've not set eyes on her since I got back . ’ |
| 19 | She had eyes as bright as buttons , a sharp wit and the most beautiful pair of shoulders I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 20 | White as marble , with the juiciest and roundest pair of tits I had ever clapped eyes on . |
| 21 | I was hustled away to a cold , stone-flagged cell beneath the Guildhall which I shared with two of the biggest rats I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 22 | Sir John Dacourt , the ambassador , was squat and florid , with frizzed white hair , light blue eyes , and the most luxuriant curling moustache I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 23 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 24 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 25 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 26 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 29 | Neither , it seems , has the population ever set eyes on an American . |
| 30 | According to them , not a quarter of the people in that house have ever set eyes on Mr. Keller . ’ |