Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | On modern waste systems this is relatively easy , but on old-fashioned systems it may be anything from difficult to impossible — and care needs to be taken not to crack a ceramic basin when unscrewing a tight cleaning eye . |
| 2 | He has a piercing gimlet eye . |
| 3 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 4 | The sun rolled a watery silver eye behind the clouds . |
| 5 | I was wise beyond my nineteen years and kept a sharp weather eye on all the human kites and ravens attracted by Benjamin 's generosity . |
| 6 | It had a round glass eye protruding from the centre of one face , and a lever at the back . |