Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that , or my eyes had adjusted to the gloom . |
| 2 | Or my eyes — sees love , and sees love . |
| 3 | Or my eyes wo n't catch him . |
| 4 | If they look too much like actual print , a reporter may have the feeling that the story has already been printed , and it will be less likely to catch his or her eye . |
| 5 | Although tension may be built up , fictitious treatment usually involves the releasing of that tension ( by the ‘ happy ending ’ , for example ) or the reader can terminate the situation by lifting his or her eyes from the page . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know if she was upset or her eyes were watering because of the smoke . |
| 7 | As well as being something of a sales ploy the synthesiser does provide warnings that the driver can hear and act on without having to take his or her eyes off the road . |
| 8 | This ingenious super-wide , 180° angle rearview mirror eliminates blind spots on both sides of the car to make overtaking and reversing easier and safer , and enables the driver to keep watch on any rear-seat occupants without taking his or her eyes off the road . |
| 9 | Yeah , and shut your eyes or we eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ So I see , ’ I said nervously , watching as he smacked his lips for fire to stream from his mouth , the top of his head to fly upwards on a jet of steam or his eyes to turn into Catherine wheels . |
| 11 | Naturally , d'Arquebus Senior never sullied his own hands — or his eyes — by descending with bodyguards from the Spinoza estate to inspect the actual processes of manufacture by tech clans . |
| 12 | But no boy could fail to notice the hollows of his cheeks , which seemed to have been scooped out in deep , dark channels , or his eyes , which were ringed round with black , and bleary , and haunted . |
| 13 | After a while you can no longer be revolted every time you hear the slogans or your eyes glaze over while skimming through Scînteia . |
| 14 | And he has done it largely with and for local schoolchildren : ‘ The children are my ears and my eyes and my workforce . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 16 | He sipped his gin and tonic , and my eyes flitted to his gold watch and his gold bracelet . |
| 17 | My nose never smelt such noisome smells , and my eyes never beheld such ghastly spectacles ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes on the rostrum I get a lump in the throat and my eyes well up . |
| 19 | And the lights were so bright that I could hardly bear it and my eyes are still burning . |
| 20 | ‘ And Theo , ’ he confided , ‘ when I pass on the heath here such a woman with a child on her arm , it pierces me right through , the melancholy , and my eyes get moist . ’ |
| 21 | I lay on my bed and my eyes finally fell shut . |
| 22 | I have to stare at it very hard , Miss Honey , very very hard , and then I can feel it all happening behind my eyes , and my eyes get hot just as though they were burning but I do n't mind that in the least , and Miss Honey … |
| 23 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 24 | My nose started to bleed and my eyes streamed with water . |
| 25 | I followed , even more warily , and my eyes confirmed what I did not want to believe . |
| 26 | I 've never really had the good fortune to watch a fly 's last moments on Earth before , and my eyes are just glued to this small splodge of legs and wings which are interrupting the clean , shiny surface of the screen . |
| 27 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 28 | He , too , was smiling , but with sardonic ambiguity , and my eyes shifted to his ceremonial dagger . |
| 29 | I was shaking and my eyes were blurred . |
| 30 | I yawned and my eyes closed involuntarily . |