Example sentences of "[noun] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 31 | Impelled by an instinct greater than herself , Alice slunk forward , walking between the bent legs , looking that magical organ in the eye , caught by its immodest yet complex configurations . |
| 32 | It did not conceal his monstrous organ , the end of which had temporarily found lodgement in the eye socket of the defunct toddler . |
| 33 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 34 | As a being capable of having legal rights and liabilities , a corporation is a person in the eye of the law . |
| 35 | asking questions , looking the other person in the eye ; |
| 36 | Always look the person in the eye before signing . |
| 37 | Did you at the time see the celebration of sexuality — even if it is a boy masturbating over an advertisement in a newspaper — as a kick in the eye of oppressive forces in the church ? |
| 38 | colour in the eye , colour on the beak , colour on feet |
| 39 | The far world not the The unspiritual world that that we can You see the pride in the eye , that with that that that that can be can be another women or it can it can be cosmetics , it can be a dress to women or it could be another man . |
| 40 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 41 | We looked each other in the eye at 5′ 10″ . |
| 42 | He stopped in mid-chew and stared the landlord in the eye . |
| 43 | He always looks the claimant in the eye . |
| 44 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |
| 45 | She drank more coffee , put her cup down on the table , looked Carver in the eye . |
| 46 | The pathologist suddenly dropped his habitual banter , and looked Morse in the eye . |
| 47 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 48 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence . |
| 51 | It 's much better to look people in the eye and tell them the truth . ’ |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 ? |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | You do n't stand up straight , look people in the eye , shake hands firmly or leave decisively when it 's time to go . |
| 56 | I walked on and tried looking people in the eye . |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 58 | They ca n't look people in the eye and say : ‘ Oh yeah , I use heroin . |
| 59 | which said if you looked people in the eye |
| 60 | 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 . |