Example sentences of "[pron] in 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 | One in the eye for maple scientists |
| 11 | One in the eye for progressive educationalists , after a hard battle ? |
| 12 | ‘ One in the eye for Hitler and that lot , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | THAT 'S one in the eye for Rod Stewart ! |
| 18 | HEART-THROB Patrick Swayze gets one in the eye from a small boy in the forthcoming heat-and-dust saga City Of Joy . |
| 19 | A cook from the kitchens took one in the eye and stumbled backwards with his hands pressed to his temples . |
| 20 | It was one in the eye for the old order . |
| 21 | Look me in the eye , I said . |
| 22 | Look me in the eye Goldberg and tell me whether that picture was any good . |
| 23 | Then she looked me in the eye and smiled . |
| 24 | Paragraph four fairly hit me in the eye ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 27 | In her challenging book Look Me in the Eye , she finds herself rejected by her feminist campaigner friends , with all kinds of excuses about her assumed deteriorating abilities . |
| 28 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 29 | He looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Two more . ’ |
| 30 | Lee Marvin , who had a good supporting role in the film , told me , ‘ The big problem I had with Monty Clift was that he would n't look me in the eye . |