Example sentences of "[adj] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned baleful eyes on the captured Dragoon . |
| 2 | Jurors were required to restate the Forest bounds , for example in the counties of Dorset and Huntingdon , under the baleful eyes of this new team of royal servants . |
| 3 | Alexander Vass simply looked straight through her with those penetrating coal-black eyes of his . |
| 4 | Black sunken eyes like dried figs . |
| 5 | Textbooks also mention lid oedema , hyperpigmentation and oedema of the conjunctiva , and dry eyes in association with chlorambucil use . |
| 6 | Pauline looked up , fixing her huge , dark , liquid eyes on a tall man who had entered the restaurant . |
| 7 | She gazed with wide eyes at the nearest cows , who stared back with large , liquid eyes at her — and did n't move an inch ! |
| 8 | She fixed her hazel eyes on his and elaborated , smiling , ‘ You could treat yourself to a few trinkets with the change . ’ |
| 9 | Feeling heat suffuse her cheeks , she quickly turned her head away before Gwen could notice and stared straight into the brightly enquiring hazel eyes of a young boy . |
| 10 | Keen hazel eyes under black brows widened incredulously , before sparkling with a quick mischievous gleam . |
| 11 | Tall , broad and muscular , hazel eyes under dark eyebrows , strong features in a tanned face — it was the man in the village street towards whom she had felt such a strange attraction . |
| 12 | To the prejudiced eyes of land-bound humans the oceans seem like one continuous mass , homogeneous as outer space . |
| 13 | She now felt herself to be like the squirrel , staring with bright inimical eyes at a sad domestic beast . |
| 14 | That 'd be a sight for sore eyes with that one . |
| 15 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 16 | Observers also noted that the ICRC tended to be associated in Iranian eyes with the Swiss government — with which there were continuing tensions because Switzerland appeared ready to allow the extradition to France of Zeyal Sarhadi , an Iranian suspected of involvement in the August 1991 murder of former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar [ see pp. 37409 ; 38697 ] . |
| 17 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 18 | Examination had also revealed several hooded eyes in the head , torso and arms ; all connected by a massive circuitry of unexplainable nerves and sinew which , although with no brain to relay messages still saw them , still swivelled and watched them move about the room as they examined it . |
| 19 | Floppy , fair hair of identical length all round , brushed his collar behind and just missed his pale wide-set eyes in front . |
| 20 | The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears . |
| 21 | As he grew more feeble , his followers were left prey to seduction by lusty upstarts , viz private eyes with all their teeth . |
| 22 | Pargeter turned her alert eyes to the sergeant . |
| 23 | Maxim turned his red-rimmed eyes at George winced with pain even at the feeble car light and shut them again . |
| 24 | The hospitaller glanced up with his red-rimmed eyes in a drawn , pale face . |
| 25 | Their warm Spanish eyes in luxuriant black eyelashes melted my heart which had been chilled by the dark-glassed fascists in the city streets . |
| 26 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 27 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 28 | Kopyion sat on a chair , staring out of half-blind eyes at the screens and eating dates from a little box on his lap . |
| 29 | and the cellular eyes of the fly |
| 30 | Stunned , he looked down through smoke-bleared eyes at the shotgun in his hands . |