Example sentences of "[adv] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
| 2 | For a moment they looked at each other square in the eye . |
| 3 | An animal , when threatening to attack another , will stare the intended victim squarely in the eye . |
| 4 | He will look you squarely in the eye , with a steady gaze . |
| 5 | If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language . |
| 6 | The photograph was of a woman with a broad face who looked the camera squarely in the eye without a smile . |
| 7 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that , Folly , ’ he said at last , raising his head again to look her squarely in the eye . |
| 9 | Then she looked the German squarely in the eye . |
| 10 | She looked him squarely in the eye , and her lips twitched . |
| 11 | I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal . |
| 12 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 13 | I said , and looking her straight in the eye , I asked : ‘ Why is everybody picking on me ? |
| 14 | as if interpreting this remark as veiled disagreement , the newcomer repeated very loudly , looking Agnes straight in the eye : ‘ I detest modesty ! |
| 15 | Mark looked him straight in the eye . |
| 16 | Wilkerson looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ You could kill me , Nicky . |
| 17 | Wilkerson took the cartons from us and looked me straight in the eye . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ says Vic , looking Bert Braddock straight in the eye . |
| 19 | And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing : |
| 20 | These are for the climbers , and when you feel puny as a walker you can sidle over to someone looking through this rail and look them straight in the eye , secure in the knowledge that nothing in hill-walking requires you to dress in such a gruesome fashion . |
| 21 | The lad looked his father straight in the eye as he gave his blunt answer . |
| 22 | Look people straight in the eye when they are talking to you and check if what they say stays in your mind longer . |
| 23 | She looked him straight in the eye and said , ‘ Do you know , dearie , it 's a matter of the utmost indifference to me what you do . ’ |
| 24 | J. was quite capable of staring her straight in the eye and swearing that black was white if it would get me out of a jam . |
| 25 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 26 | Looking Bob straight in the eye , she added , ‘ There was a time when I could have drifted into marrying him , but no longer . ’ |
| 27 | Jonna 's chin came up a fraction and he looked his father straight in the eye . |
| 28 | Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble . |
| 29 | Dad looked the man straight in the eye . |
| 30 | The surface of the palladium is better preserved , allowing the deuterium to infuse better ; it is easy to prepare clean solutions ; and if I look you straight in the eye and say ‘ If you think of any nuclear phenomena what would you choose ’ — well , it is obvious is n't it ? ’ |