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Example sentences of "the eye " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You ca n't look your family in the eye .
2	The eye of the artist is concentrated on his pencil ; the pencil moves and the line dreams .
3	Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers .
4	I raised the head on a base until the eye is at eye level .
5	I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere .
6	The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote .
7	The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote .
8	A description of a Tantric painting as a linear diagram may seem uninteresting , but then the effect of such a picture is not meant to be pleasure for the eye alone , but for religious use .
9	On these occasions the eye discerns a kind of visibility in ‘ an area of darkness ’ : this , in fact , is the title of the book which records Naipaul 's ‘ experience of India ’ .
10	The eye measures .
11	Look me in the eye , I said .
12	Look me in the eye Goldberg and tell me whether that picture was any good .
13	Escape from 500 years of the tyranny of the eye , the brain .
14	Let the eye move over it .
15	The mouth is more agile than the eye , he wrote , the hand is more agile than the brain .
16	It 's good to gladden the eye with a dish full of colour . ’
17	The quickness of the hand deceiving the eye and all that .
18	I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal .
19	Then she looked me in the eye and smiled .
20	She looked me straight in the eye .
21	I said , and looking her straight in the eye , I asked : ‘ Why is everybody picking on me ?
22	Geoffrey Smith profiles trees both native and exotic , and explains how a garden tree and its companion planting forms a focal point for the eye and , just as importantly , for wildlife .
23	A bright , dramatic red instantly draws the eye
24	In those patients with shingles on the face , there is a chance of the infection spreading to the eye .
25	to look such truths in the eye is a test of courage .
26	Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ .
27	If , under Hugh MacLennan , he was able to form his judgment and turn his phrases under the eye of a skilful novelist , in Louis Dudek 's adroit hands he was able to fashion and test his poetic acumen to the full ; both were to be of absorbing interest to him .
28	Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see .
29	Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see .
30	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 .