Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make a stitch 1/8in ( 3mm ) long , the needle thread has to be drawn from the top spool , through the guides and top tension discs to the eye of the needle . |
| 2 | The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono . |
| 3 | An alternative was to insert cowrie shells in the eye sockets of wooden images like those found as far apart as Togoland , the Philippines and New Zealand . |
| 4 | I caught a boot heel in the eye ; apart from other places . ’ |
| 5 | Final preparation of the bud consists of cutting square the top tip of the bud shield , and lightly bending back the other tongue end just enough for a tiny sliver of pith wood behind the eye to lift . |
| 6 | Something on the local news about her poking some television woman in the eye , to say nothing of her dancing the night away with John Major . |
| 7 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 8 | Here , a granuloma forms around the larva on the retina , often resembling a retinoblastoma , and there have been cases of precipitate removal of the eye in children following misdiagnosis . |
| 9 | It is a harder look that denies unemployment , actual or probable ; it refuses the fact of recession and industrial decrepitude ; it stares the social lie of mid-eighties Britain right in the eye and lies right back . |
| 10 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 11 | Swindon Magistrates were told she 'd lost her temper and punched 88-year-old Sarah Fribbins in the eye . |
| 12 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 13 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 14 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |
| 15 | As to the deployment of a RDF , this would entail a mixed air and sea operation under the eye of the US Central Command based in Florida , to transport airborne , marine and other formations from the US . |