Example sentences of "her [noun] 's eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Kathleen , and then , hastily , aware of her sister 's eye , ‘ I mean , no . |
| 2 | But seeing her sister 's eyes turn from contemplating the deep indigo square of sky above the courtyard , and come to rest on her face in grief-stricken entreaty , she faltered , shrugged , and with impatient gestures , moved her over to make room on the bench where she dumped herself down . |
| 3 | Erica , although knowing none of this , had grown more scathing , with her outsider 's eye . |
| 4 | As she drove back , she reviewed her scanty wardrobe in her mind 's eyes , wondering what would be appropriate for dinner at the château . |
| 5 | She wanted to fix this countryside , in all its detail , in her mind 's eye and never lose it . |
| 6 | It was this nightmare image of panic and despair that she kept in her mind 's eye as Simon talked his way confidently through his own philosophy of life . |
| 7 | The old familiar image of that desperately clutching hand , rising up out of the waves and then sinking again for ever , created itself in her mind 's eye . |
| 8 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 9 | Already she could visualise the lay-out — ‘ The Other Side of Fashion ’ she 'd entitled it in her mind 's eye when she 'd discussed it with Nick . |
| 10 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 11 | In her mind 's eye , from this distance away , it seemed infinitely more attractive than ever their London home had been . |
| 12 | Perhaps her nearsense completed for her — in her mind 's eye — those abbreviated gestures so that she perceived the weaving of a skein of death . |
| 13 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 14 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |
| 15 | A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her . |
| 16 | Ruth was silent , Adam 's spellbound face very clear in her mind 's eye . |
| 17 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |
| 18 | When her mind 's eye tired of the ghosts of memory , her gaze skipped above her bed to the ethereal mobiles whose charm was always changing . |
| 19 | ’ In her mind 's eye she saw the face of her father , and her heart was heavy . |
| 20 | A series of images passed before her mind 's eye . |
| 21 | She saw in her mind 's eye rude naked women and flames as upright and stiff as those on the covers of boxes of fireworks . |
| 22 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 23 | In her mind 's eye , she flayed the red man of his sparse pelt and hung it up to dry over a pole in her garden and then used it — as roofing for her animals ' hutch perhaps , or a tunic for herself . |
| 24 | And in her mind 's eye , she saw Mrs Plumptry . |
| 25 | Her life was uneventful , so that what she thought about naturally was what she saw with her eyes , or in her mind 's eye . |
| 26 | She is blind , so each contestant must tell her their adventures in great detail , so that she can see everything clearly in her mind 's eye . |
| 27 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 28 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 29 | ‘ Certainly , your Highness , ’ she bobbed in her mind 's eye . |
| 30 | In her mind 's eye Lisa could see those hostile dark eyebrows lifting magisterially as he assured her , ‘ But the most important appointment you have today is with me . |