Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 2 | She distinguished three aspects to the gaze : that of the eye of the camera registering the pro-filmic event , that of the spectator viewing the film , and that of the characters on screen looking at each other . |
| 3 | The Sandrat was untouched in the eye of the hurricane . |
| 4 | You never know it 's a bad cover until afterwards , of course — plus , it 's all in the eye of the beholder anyway . |
| 5 | Finn said that not being queer he could n't see that at all , and Lydia , instead of clinging grimly to her theory , agreed that it was probably all in the eye of the beholder . |
| 6 | ‘ Bobby needed to look better in the eye of the public — not to be such a bad boy . |
| 7 | Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers . |
| 8 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 9 | ONE IN THE EYE FOR SKY |
| 10 | This was surely one in the eye for Alice , but Harold , without pause , turned to address the golden visitor . |
| 11 | Just want to know what is beautiful ? , its only in the eye of the beholder , every body sees something different . |
| 12 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 13 | They were close to the eye of the storm . |