Example sentences of "look [noun] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a bald , stark way of speaking , never looking Gabriel in the eye but staring over his shoulder with a slight frown creasing her curd-yellow forehead . |
| 2 | Looking Nicolo in the eye only made her knees feel as if they were going to buckle . |
| 3 | I walked on and tried looking people in the eye . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think I heard you right , Patricia , ’ Mike said , looking Patsy in the eye . |
| 5 | Graham said , leaning forward and looking Slater in the eye . |
| 6 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 7 | I do n't see why I should n't look people in the eye ; I 've as much right to walk the street as they have , have n't I ? |
| 8 | ‘ All I 'm after is getting you to stand up straight so that you can look people in the eye without feeling you need to pinch their wallets . ’ |
| 9 | They ca n't look people in the eye and say : ‘ Oh yeah , I use heroin . |
| 10 | If you do n't look people in the eye if you do n't involve them then they 're not with you and if the audience are n't with you then the presentation does n't . |
| 11 | It 's much better to look people in the eye and tell them the truth . ’ |
| 12 | It was ‘ an unfair burden on the heart of our President ’ to look people in the eye and tell them that ‘ your government ca n't , try as it would , ca n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't stand up straight , look people in the eye , shake hands firmly or leave decisively when it 's time to go . |
| 14 | Twelve performances later , then one can look critics in the eye , and invite challenge . |
| 15 | He dared not look Mandru in the eye . |
| 16 | Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ . |
| 17 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 18 | Freddie clears his throat , and forces himself to look Howard in the eye . |
| 19 | She drank more coffee , put her cup down on the table , looked Carver in the eye . |
| 20 | The pathologist suddenly dropped his habitual banter , and looked Morse in the eye . |
| 21 | He looked Grimma in the eye . |
| 22 | She looked Jake in the eye and demanded flatly , ‘ Is that the reason why you 're here ? ’ |
| 23 | She turned round slowly and looked Jake in the eye . |
| 24 | Grunte looked Swan in the eye . |
| 25 | which said if you looked people in the eye |
| 26 | For the first time he looked Greg in the eye and pointed towards the gate . |
| 27 | He looked Leonora in the eye . |