Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam tried to make eye contact but failed . |
| 2 | What she was thinking was that , unlike her memory block with Arnie , she could n't imagine ever forgetting the first time she 'd laid eyes on Guido . |
| 3 | Charity was quite accustomed to her cousin 's eliciting rather dramatic responses from the male population , but was a little discomfited when Nelson , a tall , rangy boy with sandy hair and nice looks , seemed to have eyes only for her . |
| 4 | He turned blazing eyes on her and his voice suddenly roughened . |
| 5 | I saw the doctor who said I 'd better go on the hospital wing , which seemed ludicrous simply because I needed to use eye drops and an asthma inhalant and asthma pills . |
| 6 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 7 | I 'd be happy if I never had to set eyes on you again ! ’ |
| 8 | From the very first , as soon as he had held her , he had had eyes only for her . |
| 9 | The Japanese had slit eyes and very bad teeth , and fought the Australians , who never rolled their sleeves down . |
| 10 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 11 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 12 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 13 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 14 | It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding . |
| 15 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 16 | Verbal questions tended to elicit eye movements to the right whereas questions of a spatial nature tended to elicit movements to the left . |