Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel smiled back waveringly through suddenly brimming eyes . |
| 2 | Wide-open , constantly moving eyes signal nervousness and alertness . |
| 3 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 4 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 5 | He had no hat , a lot of hair , and was not wearing eye glasses . |
| 6 | Man not wearing eye protection while pouring acid . |
| 7 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 8 | She 'd distrusted him from afar , for some time , even before leaving London , before ever setting eyes on him . |
| 9 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 10 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 11 | It is very easy to build up quite a dislike of The-Most-Important-Film-Star-Of-The-Nineties before ever clapping eyes on him . |
| 12 | I would n't have believed it if I had n't seen it with my own slightly watering eyes . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 14 | Goldfish ca n't turn their heads around but their slightly bulging eyes give them a wide field of vision . |
| 15 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 16 | Her yellow nail traced once more for a stranger 's benefit the blank faces , wide staring eyes of the previous generation of Dersinghams . |
| 17 | His anger had been just barely visible to a carefully watching eye . |
| 18 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 19 | Her wig , a soft gold colour , was dressed to sit high on her head , emphasizing once more the high cheekbones and the slightly slanting eyes . |
| 20 | What else then what other methods do we have besides having eye contact what else might we do to involve the audience to make them feel involved ? |
| 21 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 22 | Robyn coughed violently and wiped at her by now streaming eyes . |
| 23 | Walking several feet apart and avoiding even making eye contact , the royal couple arrive at Seoul 's national cemetery . |
| 24 | JoJo frowned at them both through little squinting eyes , then his face broke out into a toothless smile and he grinned at them . |
| 25 | When fitzAlan stepped away from her and sat down on a nearby chair , hooking one booted foot over his knee and regarding her with grimly assessing eyes , her mind was clear once more , ready with the plan Matilda had outlined . |
| 26 | Some of the characteristics of primates are flexible fingers with nails rather than claws , and forward facing eyes that give binocular vision and are vital for judging distance . |
| 27 | Now the wells are running dry , the chemical industry is once again making eyes at coal |
| 28 | ‘ Cenzo ! ’ scolded Katarina sharply , interrupting Meredith and looking askance at her vividly blazing eyes . |
| 29 | The carver has reversed the traditional image , creating , instead of a passive victim with blankly staring eyes , an ancient , menacing face that is made of leaves , not being terrorised by them . |
| 30 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |