Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] of [pos pn] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting better but it 's just this gritty thing in the back of my eye , I mean I |
| 2 | But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover . |
| 3 | Only a flicker from the television , reflected in the gloss of his eye and thrown up against the blank darkness , lent him the illusion of a lustre passing through her body , opaline . |
| 4 | All your life you live so close to truth , it becomes a permanent blur in the corer of your eye , and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque . |
| 5 | We bought these two sloping chairs right and Tony , where our seats were there was a big light in the ceiling , a big round light there , and it shone straight in the side of me eye I said we ca n't sit here . |
| 6 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 7 | When he burst out against some restriction , delay , inaccuracy or bureaucratic procedure that was choking him , Laura sat with her hands neatly folded staring straight in front of her , a controlled tear welling in the corner of her eye , but never even near to a response . |
| 8 | In the corner of her eye she saw Maurin stir , looking up and gauging whether Durance 's rage was abated . |
| 9 | She caught a movement in the corner of her eye , and looked up . |
| 10 | It was that kind of country , somehow , safe things looked dangerous , specially in the corner of your eye . |
| 11 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 12 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 13 | He would get depressed and sometimes you could see a tear in the corner of his eye . |
| 14 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 15 | He had n't seen an image in the corner of his eye , belatedly realised who it could be , and was making his way back on foot to investigate ? |