Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 2 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 3 | The ship flared , briefly brightening the scene below — whereas earlier the distorted reflections of that ethereal lacework strobing from the ebon city had only confused the eye . |
| 4 | The primordial deity , Nun , advised Re to use his powerful Eye , the sun itself and possessor of its own complex mythology , to exact vengeance on the evildoers , and furthermore to send the Eye in the person of Hathor . |
| 5 | Both sectors have long experienced the eye of professional bodies , which accredit the degree courses designed to produce recruits for their profession . |
| 6 | Hideous colours melt together to overwhelm the eye . |
| 7 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 8 | McIvor , from Newbuildings , outside Londonderry , has already caught the eye of Billy Bingham . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 10 | It is truly a sublime glen : you can scarcely allow the eye to leave for a minute the mighty mountain walls on either side ( for some new scar , or crag , or corrie , or leaping cataract is ever being discovered ) , and their charming variegation of shade and tint among the mosses , rock , and grass , or among the heath and heather-bell . |
| 11 | There should be a decent gap between the columns and it is often useful to place a vertical line in the middle of this gap , so physically preventing the eye straying from one to the other . |
| 12 | The toes pointed slightly outwards and so did the shoes , a pair of the finest winkle-pickers that ever threaded the eye of a needle . |
| 13 | In 1934 he made his Warwickshire debut , and quickly caught the eye as a hard-hitting middle-order batsman . |
| 14 | The megatons of cash generated by the football World Cups have clearly caught the eye of most other sports , and now we have athletics World Cups to contend with . |
| 15 | They have also caught the eye of estate agents . |
| 16 | A bright , dramatic red instantly draws the eye |
| 17 | Trellis supports a climbing rose up a wall and hanging baskets also take the eye upwards . |
| 18 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |
| 19 | But it was an older blood who really caught the eye . |
| 20 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 21 | He played well as lead to Chris Bryan , but it was Whiteman 's all-Barking rink and again Paul Maynard 's all-Essex County quartet of youngsters who particularly caught the eye . |
| 22 | Coats of arms of the merchants who built the houses four hundred years ago catch the eye , as do those of the guilds and craftsmen who flourished in old Stein . |
| 23 | However , the speed of light is roughly the same in the cornea as in water , and so a fish 's cornea simply protects the eye without bending the light . |
| 24 | The prominent patch of red on the flank of Scott 's Wrasse immediately takes the eye , but the entire body and fins of this species is beautifully coloured . |
| 25 | Each piece is a carefully crafted little jewel , with polished facets that flint , or maybe elude the eye 'till second time around . |
| 26 | All the same , there was perhaps rather more to this matter than initially meets the eye . |
| 27 | A temporary vang , taken to a pad-eye on the deck , then ripped the eye and a part of the deck away . |
| 28 | Also , when faced with a large stretch of foreground , the addition of a different harmonious colour sometimes stimulates the eye and can be the answer . |
| 29 | The sun had returned with vigour , giving the trees and leaves a crispness that almost hurt the eye . |
| 30 | When parallel lines are closely hatched the eye prefers to assume that light flows along them . |