Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 2 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 4 | The Countess cast a scathing eye at the dancers who were beginning yet another waltz , then looked back to the Duke . |
| 5 | It is held together with a cryptic seal showing a human eye , a large X with peck marks round it and the words ‘ a return ’ written underneath . |
| 6 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 7 | The Queen kept a sharp eye on the proceedings , and found it a favourable wet-day pastime to visit the Dolls ' House . |
| 8 | At one point it rises off the ground like a periscope , looking around itself , for a fraction of a second casting a backward eye at us . |
| 9 | Before I go on a DV I feel a bit like a private eye . |
| 10 | But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . |
| 11 | Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye |
| 12 | My elders in the newsroom kept a paternal eye on me , and approved if they saw me working on my Pitman 's . |
| 13 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 14 | Once a solicitor has been instructed by the applicant , it is evident from the files examined that the Commissioner keeps a close eye on the case , and is kept informed of all progress and developments by way of regular reports from the solicitor . |
| 15 | I was cowering in my usual corner in Boots ' chemist 's shop in Scarborough , where I had developed the habit of a weekly weigh-in to keep a morbid eye on my progressive emaciation . |
| 16 | But actor Simon Dormandy has been banned form immersing his head following a delicate eye operation . |
| 17 | The dog opened a lazy eye to watch them safe out . |
| 18 | Neville who oversees the zany stock-takes once a week keeps a watchful eye on the joke , gag novelty market . |
| 19 | The foreman cast a professional eye over the indicated damage . |
| 20 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
| 21 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 22 | He did not go any further into the room but stood in the door keeping a watchful eye on Evans . |
| 23 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 24 | The Centre keeps a close eye on developments in economic computing and publishes a regular Bulletin which is distributed widely . |
| 25 | ‘ It simply is not good enough for the government to turn a blind eye ; Darlington needs more police officers , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Changes in the law to this effect have taken and are taking place , while jurisdiction turns a blind eye towards much which would once have been rigidly repressed . |
| 27 | One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop . |
| 28 | Shifting most of the body weight to the right leg , he pivots clockwise in a 180-degree arc , taking care to keep a watchful eye on his opponent . |
| 29 | This is quite possible since MI5 did not make a detectable or a sustained effort to keep a watchful eye on Ivanov 's movements . |
| 30 | The alternative if the British public turns a blind eye , she believes , is the prospect of a dark day when , because of the colour of their skin , two young Middlesbrough-born and bred women may not be allowed to reach the safety of their home . |