Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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1 | Instead they show to my prejudiced eyes that the sea changes were very rapid indeed . |
2 | On Wednesday night I was seized with an intolerable pain from my right temple to the tip of my right shoulder , including my right eye , cheek , and jaw , and that side of the throat . |
3 | ‘ I got a detached retina in my right eye three weeks before I fought Ray Mercer , ’ veteran Holmes admitted . |
4 | She said : ‘ It felt like someone had stabbed ice in my face , then my right eye went black . |
5 | One of the puppies suddenly flung itself through the air and banged its wet nose against my right eye in its flight to a tray of vol-au-vent . |
6 | It was then that I felt the first cobweb — one sticky tendril , unbelievably strong , across my right eye and the bridge of my nose . |
7 | And the floaters in my right eye . |
8 | My own driving has become a pleasure again since a cataract in my right eye was dealt with . |
9 | Sweet Slumber seizes on my willing Eyes |
10 | my stupid grin , my empty eyes , |
11 | After a line or two I shall simply avert my unpained eye , ’ said Sixsmith , and started coughing again . |
12 | For my sensible eyes to close in sedative calm |
13 | my reddened eyes |
14 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
15 | With black hair , and moods to match , for I was more capricious , my blue-grey eyes mirrored the sullen nature and restlessness which ever simmered within . |
16 | Her expression , to my fearful eyes , was enigmatic . |
17 | Lady Beatrice ignored my wandering eye , young Rachel dared only smile shyly at us , whilst the Agentes were a law unto themselves . |
18 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
19 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
20 | I do remember fighting to stay balanced on the rock and not managing it , I do remember that when the world came back into focus I could not see out of my left eye . |
21 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
22 | I yelled as Elinor 's heel just missed my left eye . |
23 | The blade was about two inches from my left eye . |
24 | There came a day when the vision in my left eye suddenly almost disappeared . |
25 | What hair that is left on my head became steam that wisped past my left eye , a ball that has bounced in and out of many a brain cover . |
26 | I ca n't seem to get my left eye open . |
27 | The sun 's dipping down over the trees and a breeze gets up , rustling the leaves on the ornamental shrubs and blowing some grit into my left eye , making it water again . |
28 | Face first : there was a grey swelling over my left eye , and my rug was quite badly singed on the same side . |
29 | I then got a bad infection in my left eye which my doctor suggested was due to the contact lens . |
30 | I get a sudden pain in my left eye and it starts streaming . |