Example sentences of "in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't look your family in the eye . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Look me in the eye , I said . |
| 4 | Look me in the eye Goldberg and tell me whether that picture was any good . |
| 5 | I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal . |
| 6 | Then she looked me in the eye and smiled . |
| 7 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 8 | I said , and looking her straight in the eye , I asked : ‘ Why is everybody picking on me ? |
| 9 | to look such truths in the eye is a test of courage . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One in the eye for maple scientists |
| 15 | In the village of Damour , a young Jewish member of the Allied forces , Moshe Dayan , was shot in the eye . |
| 16 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 17 | Dignified , modest , though not unaware of his charisma and influence , Eric was a serious man , yet with a twinkle in the eye and by no means narrow in his thinking . |
| 18 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 19 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 20 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 21 | It 's much better to look people in the eye and tell them the truth . ’ |
| 22 | Its effects can vary from never looking a man in the eye or never arguing with a man , to wearing a Burkha . |
| 23 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 24 | And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We are in the eye of the storm , ’ he said . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 29 | Her head came up and she looked him in the eye . |
| 30 | One in the eye for progressive educationalists , after a hard battle ? |