Example sentences of "[noun] to [pos pn] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood there with their aprons to their eyes . |
| 2 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 3 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 4 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 5 | Adolf Hitler was at a military hospital in Pasewalk in Pomerania , recovering from burns to his eyes after a British gas attack at Ypres , when on 10 November 1918 a pastor brought him news of the armistice . |
| 6 | Her stab at phonetic pronunciation brought laughter to his eyes . |
| 7 | The latter was again dressed in readiness to mount a horse , but the sight of Lucy brought a flash of indignation to her eyes . |
| 8 | Maria stared at him standing there , discovering that he looked slightly drawn , while there was a hotness to his eyes now , as if fever or perhaps simply fatigue afflicted him . |
| 9 | The camera moved up the woman 's body to her eyes , searching , searching . |
| 10 | Then our hostess appeared on a terrace higher still , put a large telescope to her eye , and read the time by the clock on the town tower . |
| 11 | Magnified as much by his fever as by the brass telescope to his eye , he saw Hookum Singh , a giant Sikh capable of carrying a barrel of powder on his back , stagger after Harry Dunstaple , emptying the powder in piles at the corners of the Cutcherry building and around pillars and supports . |
| 12 | He put his telescope to his eye , and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice . |
| 13 | But at last she made an effort to pull herself together , and , dragging herself from the bed , she went to the wash-basin , where splashes of cold water to her eyes made her feel more normal . |
| 14 | He was racked by a sudden jaw-splitting bout of yawning that brought water to his eyes . |
| 15 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 16 | Her make-up she had purposely applied slightly more heavily than she would have done during the day , silver-grey shadow adding emphasis to her eyes , a touch of blusher for her cheeks , lipstick . |
| 17 | ‘ What are you thinking , cara , that has brought such a glow to your eyes ? ’ |
| 18 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 19 | I want you to touch me , trail your mouth from my toes to my eyes . |
| 20 | That room the paint to my eye has either faded or changed colour or something . |
| 21 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 22 | But the damage to his eyes was irreparable . |
| 23 | It 's , it 's a bit silly is could have done some damage to your eye . |
| 24 | Several jurors dabbed handkerchiefs to their eyes , and tears slid down Mr Lozano 's cheeks . |
| 25 | A flash of the torch again , as if to check that no boat was there , then he turned to face the causeway , took something from a pocket and raised what were apparently night-glasses to his eyes . |
| 26 | The single white anemone set her pulse racing ; the suspicion of dew in the bell of a campanula knotted her diaphragm ; the fragrance of white tobacco plant at dusk brought tears to her eyes . |
| 27 | Pictures of her parents , memories , flashed through her mind bringing hot scalding tears to her eyes . |
| 28 | That brought fresh tears to her eyes . |
| 29 | The punchline actually brought tears to her eyes and caused Isa Peebles to laugh so hard she almost fell off her stool . |
| 30 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |