Example sentences of "eye [vb mod] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each should be designed for its recipient , but remember that other eyes may see it . |
| 2 | Otherwise , their eyes might see , their ears hear , and their mind understand , and then they might turn again , and I would heal them ( Matt . |
| 3 | He thought of Fantina 's little face , and groaned that her eyes might see the sordid , futile world that he had to enter to work and survive . |
| 4 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 5 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 6 | A head of black silky hair came very slowly over the top of the rail until two dark cherry-like eyes could see over the top . |
| 7 | High above the disc the second albatross soared ; so high in fact that its tiny mad orange eyes could see the whole of the world and the great , glittering , girdling Circle Sea . |
| 8 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
| 9 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 10 | Sure enough , her eyes could see the faint satiny gleam of his bronze skin . |
| 11 | He felt safe now , because only his eyes would see the terrible changes in that beautiful face . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in the course of the years , there were some letters that were painful , and meant for no other eyes ; and no other eyes will see them . |
| 13 | Since their eyesight is sensitive to parts of the spectrum that are invisible to us , butterflies ' wings , like flowers , have even more complex patterns than our ultraviolet-blind eyes can see . |
| 14 | Just as our eyes can see only that narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies that natural selection equipped our ancestors to see , so our brains are built to cope with narrow bands of sizes and times . |
| 15 | The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine . |
| 16 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 17 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 18 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 19 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 20 | As far as the eye could see , the water was a dirty mud colour . |
| 21 | high overhead hung , motionless , hawk beyond hawk , buzzard beyond buzzard , kite beyond kite , as far as eye could see . |
| 22 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 23 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 24 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 25 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 26 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 27 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 28 | It was down this trough that the Severn tide roared twice daily , before relentlessly covering the high sand in the middle estuary at a rate of which the eye could see . |
| 29 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |
| 30 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |