Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of my eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Snap out of it — you 're grown up now , ’ said Otley , passing his hands in front of my eyes in the manner of a hypnotist . |
| 2 | Those dreadful , ghastly images have stayed in front of my eyes every moment of the past five months . |
| 3 | It was as though I were sitting in a movie and my actions were flashing in front of my eyes . |
| 4 | I got my wallet out of my pocket and held it up in front of my eyes . |
| 5 | Then a man 's face suddenly appeared from nowhere in front of my eyes . |
| 6 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 7 | He was killed in front of my eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 9 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 10 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
| 11 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 12 | I saw my husband die in front of my eyes . |
| 13 | She held the bottle up in front of my eyes . |
| 14 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 15 | I lay silently , expecting my grandfather to materialize in front of my eyes at any moment . |
| 16 | I also saw faces of people I knew and had met in my life ; they floated in front of my eyes one after another in an endless stream . |
| 17 | I , I , something floated in front of my eyes that she was thinking of applying on part time for the complaint examiner , but she did n't . |
| 18 | Then you started to fight me and I felt this red mist explode in front of my eyes . |
| 19 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |