Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the eye of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 2 | She distinguished three aspects to the gaze : that of the eye of the camera registering the pro-filmic event , that of the spectator viewing the film , and that of the characters on screen looking at each other . |
| 3 | You never know it 's a bad cover until afterwards , of course — plus , it 's all in the eye of the beholder anyway . |
| 4 | Finn said that not being queer he could n't see that at all , and Lydia , instead of clinging grimly to her theory , agreed that it was probably all in the eye of the beholder . |
| 5 | Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers . |