Example sentences of "front [prep] [pos pn] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maus 's cartoon cross-cutting underlines , perhaps more vividly than any other medium could do , the truth of Vladek 's saying , when asked why the Jews offered so little resistance to the Germans : ‘ They could n't believe even what 's in front of their eyes … ‘ |
| 2 | The pictures moved and danced in front of their eyes . |
| 3 | Or they will pick a young rickshaw coolie and ride around all night watching his little golden rump bobbing in front of their eyes — and beat him if he refuses their advances . " |
| 4 | They wear brightly coloured shirts , and their hair falls in front of their eyes as they talk . |
| 5 | Inside it was cool and there was a seat that took the weight off her swollen feet , and they watched as gleaming brass plates were trailed in front of their eyes with the regularity of a hypnotist 's charm , and she looked at Dan and he said no thanks and walked out . |
| 6 | So how or why or where can Town win … the bookies have them as favourites but only just … the fans have red and white in front of their eyes … for them there can only be one result … |
| 7 | And , of course , every official New Zealand or British sitting in the stand claimed not to have witnessed a gross act of violence , right in front of their eyes . |
| 8 | She turns round and a white sheet flaps , a white sail sails , a white wraith passes silently in front of her eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ She saw her car driven off in front of her eyes . ’ |
| 10 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 11 | The water is a cold green gloom in front of her eyes , with splintered light from the surface , long tentacles of weed . |
| 12 | It was dark in the house after the sun and when she blinked , red and yellow lines jumped in front of her eyes . |
| 13 | She placed the note in front of her eyes . |
| 14 | Thinking about that now brought a scowl to her features , till Candy waved a hand in front of her eyes . |
| 15 | Slowly the mist in front of her eyes cleared . |
| 16 | But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease . |
| 17 | But the cameo of death formed in front of her eyes , small , brightly lit and detailed . |
| 18 | During the entire day he felt a violent , dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place . |
| 19 | He lay for a moment , flat-out , breathing heavily , waiting for the red haze juddering in front of his eyes to clear . |
| 20 | His face assumed the condition of … rigid fixedness while in council … ; he kept his immense ceremonial hat on , and placed a large eagle 's wing in front of his eyes and nose ’ . |
| 21 | In the chair before his desk , on which the pictures lay , Skaller was sitting with his hands in front of his eyes . |
| 22 | As the hands squeezed tighter a redness swam in front of his eyes and he could n't speak . |
| 23 | When he tried and saw the sky covered with rushing clouds , the lawn that had become a hay-field , the cedar 's wheeling branches , the gun levelled , there would come an explosion in his memory like the firing of that shot-gun , a redness in front of his eyes with splintered edges , then black-out . |
| 24 | The officer became light headed and saw spots in front of his eyes . |
| 25 | He also had a graduated filter in front of his eyes that turned every sky into a backcloth for " Maria Martin or the Murder in the Red Barn " . |
| 26 | as if in confirmation of that fact , the pressure of the foam encasing his head eased slightly and a display readout began to project data onto a hitherto invisible screen in front of his eyes . |
| 27 | Richmann brought the gun round again , his mouth twisting , and Carrefour recognized the look of murderous anger from the scenes being simultaneously played and replayed in front of his eyes . |
| 28 | They floated in front of his eyes , moving ceaselessly . |
| 29 | Small black notes danced in front of his eyes . |
| 30 | when he saw the stranger change into Doctor Jekyll in front of his eyes . |