Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I caught a boot heel in the eye ; apart from other places . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Swindon Magistrates were told she 'd lost her temper and punched 88-year-old Sarah Fribbins in the eye . |
| 7 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 8 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |