Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
| 2 | In the village of Damour , a young Jewish member of the Allied forces , Moshe Dayan , was shot in the eye . |
| 3 | The college caretaker was shot in the eye as he went to help . |
| 4 | LITTLE Christopher Cunliffe was shot in the eye by his dad 's best mate — after the family friend joked he would ‘ quieten him down ’ by pointing an air rifle at him . |
| 5 | FLAMBOYANT Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was recovering yesterday after being shot in the eye as neighbours potted clay pigeons . |
| 6 | " What evidence does the picture contain that Harold was shot in the eye ? " |
| 7 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 8 | And next time they could be shot in the eye . |
| 9 | And you got this boy who 's shot in the eye by pellets twice who 's got , Mum ! |
| 10 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 11 | Reynolds and Gainsborough were much indebted to Ramsay 's example , but being louder talents altogether , have tended in the eye of posterity to eclipse Ramsay 's quiet genius . |
| 12 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 13 | As a result , synthetic materials that are to be used in the eye need to have very special properties . |
| 14 | Inevitably , it had been parodied in the Eye as Men of the Past , awakening in Branson the first stirrings of what became a lasting sensitivity to adverse publicity . |
| 15 | Now if you damage yourself by whatever way , and the classic one that we see at school is if you get banged in the eye in rugby , somebody elbows you in the scrum or something similar , you then get a swelling caused by what ? |
| 16 | The potential for the use of such soundings for the mapping of deep structure was well demonstrated in the Eye area of Suffolk . |
| 17 | but had buckled in the eye of some storm or other |
| 18 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 19 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 20 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 21 | Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho , seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets . |
| 22 | Her prominent blue eyes , seeming to bulge with curiosity , met Mark 's yes , which were also blue , but with that remote expression sometimes found in the eyes of sailors or explorers . |
| 23 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 24 | At the so-called Punk Festival at the 100 Club in September 1976 , a girl was struck in the eye by a flying splinter of glass . |
| 25 | but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually |
| 26 | A woman was sprayed in the eyes with ammonia after disturbing a gang of burglars at her parents home . |
| 27 | He and his wife , Betty , who was hit in the eye by flying fragments , have not lived in the house since , according to neighbours . |
| 28 | So let us say er well let's take an example , you 've just been er hit in the eye by a hockey ball hit by our friend Jonathan . |
| 29 | So let us say you 've been hit in the eye accidentally by a hockey ball . |
| 30 | Patrick , 68 , was hit in the eye by a fast ball that flew off the wicket-keeper 's boot as he fielded in the slips . |