Example sentences of "the eye [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll not try to keep me ? ’ he said warningly , looking her in the eyes without a smile . |
| 2 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 3 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 4 | And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis . |
| 5 | His Spanish dance has therefore many authentic features seen through the eyes of a master classical teacher . |
| 6 | Eyes ‘ moving no more than the eyes of a corpse … follow me like a pair of jailers … |
| 7 | The eyes of a savage … |
| 8 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 9 | But look at the three vanguard social reforms through the eyes of a Conservative MP defending a small majority , and you will see naught for his comfort . |
| 10 | To the eyes of a child they stand for adventure . |
| 11 | A FAMILY doctor blacked the eyes of a partner after a ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign was waged against him , a court was told yesterday . |
| 12 | A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri ( Minerva , £4.99 ) — This languid novella paints an enchanting portrait of a prosperous Calcutta family as seen through the eyes of a small boy . |
| 13 | Under the eyes of a serious , tall Palestinian with a pistol in his holster , they were singing , over and over again : ‘ Fatah , we are your children and , when we are older , we will be your soldiers . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Half A Person ’ saw Morrissey looking through the eyes of a 16-year-old runaway , complete with all the obsessive uncertainty of fandom . |
| 15 | In the transcendent world , there are new laws and men must discard their habitual ideas of what is right and what is wrong ; in fact to see the utmost beauty we must look at things with the eyes of a child . |
| 16 | This perhaps reflects the painter 's preoccupation with nature seen through the eyes of a romantic . |
| 17 | They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace . |
| 18 | What if we were to look therefore at photosynthesis through the eyes of a control engineer ? |
| 19 | Its eyes were no longer the eyes of a cow — they were blue and vacant , like the eyes of a mad person sending images to the brain of a world other than it really is . |
| 20 | Its eyes were no longer the eyes of a cow — they were blue and vacant , like the eyes of a mad person sending images to the brain of a world other than it really is . |
| 21 | The eyes blinked once , slowly , like the passing of an inner skin over the eyes of a hawk . |
| 22 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 23 | The allegory peaks in the scene where Mason meets a mad artist who wants to paint his portrait because he has ‘ the eyes of a dying man ’ . |
| 24 | Lovebite has the body of an Olympic athlete , the eyes of a Caroline libertine and the countenance of a dedicated erotomane . |
| 25 | Last year 's advert showed the humiliation of arrest through the eyes of a drunken driver . |
| 26 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 28 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 29 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 30 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |