Example sentences of "in one eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is unsteady through drink and blind in one eye . |
| 2 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 3 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 4 | She lost sight in one eye . |
| 5 | Gower Jones , who was also educated at the Llandaff School , managed to enlist in the Monmouthshire Regiment despite being blind in one eye . |
| 6 | There was a crash of breaking glass and the cat went blind in one eye . |
| 7 | Vision may be normal in early life but deteriorate suddenly , first in one eye and later in the other . |
| 8 | In accordance with a Japanese tradition , Mr Akashi coloured in one eye of the dog when the UN moved into Cambodia , to mark the beginning of the mission . |
| 9 | As a result he is now registered blind in one eye . |
| 10 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 11 | In the present context it has usually been used to mean acuity dominance , that is , superior acuity in one eye , or sighting dominance , the tendency to use one particular eye in preference to the other during monocular viewing . |
| 12 | Lorne excuses his monocle on the grounds that , being astigmatic in one eye and myopic in the other , he needs but one lens to neutralize the problem and that one lens is harder to break than glasses and it is easier to carry spares . |
| 13 | After two years his sight began to return in one eye . |
| 14 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 15 | Greenly resigned from the official Survey in the spring of 1885 because his wife was blind in one eye and there was a fear for the sight of the other — which in fact remained intact . |
| 16 | He alarmed us as children : he had a gruff manner , a game leg and a pronounced cast in one eye . |
| 17 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 18 | I was dark , my black hair cropped close , a slight cast in one eye , and a cheeky expression which many said would send me to the gallows . |
| 19 | In Britain , one child a week goes blind in one eye from toxocariasis while a further one-in-seven may suffer stomach aches , pneumonia , liver disease and allergies such as asthma , according to surveys . |
| 20 | Blinded in one eye and losing blood rapidly from a punctured artery in her neck , she dropped back unnoticed by the others . |
| 21 | Erm we were on patrol , just a normal patrol in er in Belfast and unfortunately I lost my sight and two very good friends of mine were killed , and another was er blinded in one eye and severe injuries to his leg . |
| 22 | He stopped wearing the goggles and was struck and blinded in one eye by a piece of metal . |
| 23 | At first I could find no cause , I panicked , if I could go blind in one eye without a cause , perhaps I could go blind in the other . |
| 24 | David Garrington , 26 , of Wynyard Road , Hartlepool , punched another man because he was being taunted about his stammer and blindness in one eye , the town 's magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 25 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 26 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 27 | made at the moment , but I was erm Gemma came for tea last night and she wears glasses she 's long sighted in one eye and er , anyway I noticed she 's not wearing them as much now , so I said to her mum what 's happening ? |
| 28 | he 's got partial sight in one eye , have kept him on |
| 29 | And she said that erm Gordon , her husband erm he has no sight in one eye due to due to exactly the same thing not patching erm , an eye at the , the right age . |