Example sentences of "eye the [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall .
2 The uniformed figure stood in the doorway , eyeing the occupants of the cell impassively .
3 The others were mostly quiet , eyeing the men on the stretchers in fear and fascination .
4 Chain stitch , Laura thought , eyeing the weight in the ceiling cloth ( had it moved ? ) , chain stitch and 600 a term .
5 In the car park we eyed the puddles in the tarmac where parrot cross bills sometimes drink after a meal of sticky pine seeds .
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