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

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1 You ca n't look someone in the eye and say ‘ I love you ’ .
2 Looking someone in the eye while saying : ‘ Please would you do this ’ extends the transaction enough for you to gauge the person 's reaction and therefore mood .
3 Jonathan , if that breaks and hits someone in the eye , you will be in big trouble .
4 That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink .
5 ‘ If you say he 's disabled , he 'll punch you in the eye , ’ says Michael .
6 But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way .
7 They 'll poke you in the eye
8 ‘ I ca n't look you in the eye . ’
9 Mind that do n't hit you in the eye .
10 He cut me above the eye and broke my nose which had been broken before .
11 As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes .
12 I saw three people hit in the face , one above the eye , one in the ear , one on the nose , blood streaming down them .
13 One in the eye for maple scientists
14 One in the eye for progressive educationalists , after a hard battle ?
15 One in the eye for Hitler and that lot , eh ? ’
16 Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’
17 The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance .
18 If it catches on it will certainly be one in the eye for greedy undertakers — after all , you never see a poor one , do you ? ’
19 Sadly my list is very small , but this makes ‘ soft touches ’ , when you find them , especially pleasurable — one in the eye for the cosmic injustice .
20 THAT 'S one in the eye for Rod Stewart !
21 HEART-THROB Patrick Swayze gets one in the eye from a small boy in the forthcoming heat-and-dust saga City Of Joy .
22 A cook from the kitchens took one in the eye and stumbled backwards with his hands pressed to his temples .
23 It was one in the eye for the old order .
24 Neville suggested he might write something on the Eye , to take on the ageing young men of Greek Street .
25 Look me in the eye , I said .
26 Look me in the eye Goldberg and tell me whether that picture was any good .
27 Then she looked me in the eye and smiled .
28 Paragraph four fairly hit me in the eye ! ’
29 Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice .
30 A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye .
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