Example sentences of "with [art] [adv] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Moroccan policeman was watching you with a distinctly beady eye . |
| 2 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 3 | Staring at the outfit with a suddenly jaundiced eye , Feargal 's mother muttered , ‘ I knew it was a mistake . |
| 4 | It was due to this second helping that he rejected the quail and mutton cutlets ( with pickled walnuts ) as Alice and Algernon , with a somewhat nervous eye on Lord Beddington , offered them . |
| 5 | I have already observed that I regard the so-called ‘ purposive ’ approach to construction with a somewhat critical eye . |
| 6 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 7 | Use a length of wool and a sewing needle with a very large eye ( called a darning needle ) . |
| 8 | It made me look at myself again with a more critical eye and say yes , I can be more positive and look to the future with renewed optimism . |
| 9 | The agent will send it around to publishing houses where she or he will have contacts , so your work will be seen more quickly and with a more benevolent eye . |
| 10 | They would also like the old democracies to look upon their young ones with a more compassionate eye . |
| 11 | Nadel , an Austrian-Jewish emigre , viewed the British colonial administrators with a sometimes caustic eye , and the journal contrasts sharply with the relatively diplomatic comments made in his published work . |
| 12 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 13 | Throughout his nineteen months at the Board of Trade his principal public service was that of observing the Prime Minister with an increasingly jaundiced eye . |
| 14 | He was watching the Headmistress with an exceedingly wary eye and he kept edging farther and farther away from her with little shuffles of his feet , rather as a rat might edge away from a terrier that is watching it from across the room . |