Example sentences of "['s] eye [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Joyce 's eyes it seemed she " Always had an abundance of confidence . |
| 2 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 3 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 4 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 5 | In my mind 's eye I see him as he was , complete with bowler-hat and aquiline nose . |
| 6 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 8 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 9 | Helen thought of the dark woman ; in the mind 's eye she saw her — laughing and talking with Giles . |