Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] his [noun sg] [unc] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 2 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 3 | With an assortment of adjectives , the driver confirmed , and his fireman noted a determined glint in his mate 's eye . |
| 4 | Hickery Holler came into the world 6 weeks ago , but the sad little spider monkey had never been a bright glint in his mother 's eye . |
| 5 | The ‘ photograph ’ of the burial mound in his mind 's eye , still so sharp and detailed , had convinced him that therein lay something of importance . |
| 6 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 7 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 8 | ‘ But you told me that Mr Kettering was the apple of his wife 's eye . ’ |
| 9 | Greg thought he was going to fail in his object , and began to close the door , but suddenly , as if to prove the retentiveness of his painter 's eye , Hilary turned round again to him , took a good look , and said : ‘ Were n't you the chap that was at the funeral ? |
| 10 | He could see the big man in his mind 's eye even now , lifting Berdichev and breaking him . |
| 11 | The image in his mind 's eye was as sharp as ever . |
| 12 | A true watchmaker has foresight : he designs his cogs and springs , and plans their interconnections , with a future purpose in his mind 's eye . |
| 13 | He saw his mother in his mind 's eye , her arms red to the elbows from doing other people 's washing and ironing , her knees permanently swollen from scrubbing floors . |