Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 2 | I shook my head and lowered my eyes . |
| 3 | He got my eyes , not my colouring but he 's fairly blinky is n't he , watching the telly , well I am anyway and |
| 4 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 5 | An even more welcome sight met my eyes . |
| 6 | She never met my eye . |
| 7 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 8 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 9 | It made my eyes close , every time I thought about it . |
| 10 | I wiped my eyes and felt a bit better , knowing that Granny was taking my message with her to heaven . |
| 11 | He avoided my eyes . |
| 12 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 13 | She avoided my eye . |
| 14 | I left the wheelbarrow , stood on a bulge of rock and shielded my eyes . |
| 15 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 16 | What caught my eyes were its maps . |
| 17 | Though many pieces caught my eye at Harrow , space limits my personal choice . |
| 18 | The reason the Labradoodle caught my eye is that Bubbles is the result of a liaison between a Miniature Poodle and — wait for it — a Labrador/Boxer cross . |
| 19 | The name that caught my eye was the Probables ' outside-half , Stephen Bachop . |
| 20 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 21 | But a large plate of bread slices , nearly invisible beneath a glossy coating of dark red jam , caught my eye as I walked past their stall . |
| 22 | The little brown bottle caught my eye again , and putting my cup and saucer down I uncapped and re-examined it . |
| 23 | Ellen caught my eye , looked down at the ridiculous leaflet , and suddenly we both began to laugh helplessly . |
| 24 | Ellen caught my eye , and we stared at each other for a sympathetic fraction of a second , then I looked away to see that the sticky liquid had sprayed across the teak planks . |
| 25 | However , what caught my eye most was a highly polished harmonium . |
| 26 | Your book caught my eye . |
| 27 | The Sheikha caught my eye and shook her head as if to say , ‘ This is all very old and not for today . ’ |
| 28 | But really it was the buzzards and the kestrels circling overhead that caught my eye as we made our way down the coastal path . |
| 29 | We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . |
| 30 | Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory . |