Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was another smack in the eye for the establishment . |
| 2 | Impelled by an instinct greater than herself , Alice slunk forward , walking between the bent legs , looking that magical organ in the eye , caught by its immodest yet complex configurations . |
| 3 | to look such truths in the eye is a test of courage . |
| 4 | Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too . |
| 5 | Long-sighted people are unable to hit the right point in the eye too . |
| 6 | It was proposed that there are endings ( or receptors ) within the nervous system which are attuned to specific types of energy , For example , retinal receptors in the eye respond to light energy , cochlear endings in the ear to vibrations in the air , and so on . |
| 7 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 8 | We looked each other in the eye at 5′ 10″ . |
| 9 | He drove an Escort XR3i complete with fluffy toys , and had moved to Lilac Gardens in the eye of the housing price slump , aided by the bequest of a dead aunt . |
| 10 | How can you look that poor woman in the eye , leaving her to my imperfect care ? |
| 11 | There is a ‘ Marching Man ’ , and some smaller works including ‘ Normal Desires ’ , ‘ Suite/Substitute ’ , and ‘ Double Poke in the Eye ’ , the multiple which Nauman created for New York 's New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1985 . |
| 12 | THERE was a wicked gleam in the eye of Paul Hodkinson as he watched Colin McMillan getting ripped apart in his WBO world featherweight title . |
| 13 | Exactly much , much , better than any pokes in the eye with a sharp stick ! |
| 14 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |
| 15 | asking questions , looking the other person in the eye ; |
| 16 | Here it is — the paperback of the much-hyped book which has , we are told , sent a whole generation of American men off in search of the Wild Man within themselves , healing the psychic wounds of childhood on the way , until they reach the point of being able to look accusing radical feminists in the eye and say : ‘ Hey , men have problems , too . ’ |
| 17 | They marched on , goaded by a fanaticism which made everything possible , a manic gleam in the eye . |