Example sentences of "the [adj] eye [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little eyes sharpened at the top of the thin nose . |
| 2 | It follows that the angle a vertical edge subtends at the left eye divided by the angle it subtends at the right eye is greater than 1 for the left-hand edge of the pattern , but is less than 1 for the right-hand edge . |
| 3 | The grey eyes flicked over the curves of her body , and finally rested on her face . |
| 4 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 5 | Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids . |