Example sentences of "[adv] in the eye [prep] " in BNC.

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1 MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing .
2 Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst .
3 The photograph was of a woman with a broad face who looked the camera squarely in the eye without a smile .
4 She raised her lashes , raised her chin , looked him straight in the eye through a controlled mist of tears .
5 And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing :
6 I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal .
7 Madonna sits confidently in the eye of the swirling controversy and says , ‘ They do n't get the joke . ’
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