Example sentences of "eyeing the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall . |
| 2 | On a wet day , eyeing the lanes of traffic before crossing to the hospital , I caught my toe in a paving-stone and fell fiat . |
| 3 | The uniformed figure stood in the doorway , eyeing the occupants of the cell impassively . |
| 4 | ‘ Comrade , ’ said Khrushchev , eyeing the back of the Great Hall , ‘ that is exactly what we were doing all those years under Stalin . ’ |
| 5 | RICHARD HANNON is eyeing the gold in a bid to clinch his first ever trainer 's title . |
| 6 | The others were mostly quiet , eyeing the men on the stretchers in fear and fascination . |
| 7 | A half glance at the congregation , then back to eyeing the piece of paper . |
| 8 | Willie nodded shyly and went after Sammy who was eyeing the flowers in someone 's window box . |
| 9 | He was buried under subversive literature between the Gardening Society ( whose president sat framed by snaps of himself communing with plants ) and the Women 's Group , unhappily eyeing the occupant of the Rocky Horror Society stand , who , dressed in regulation suspenders and holed stockings , was doing roaring business . |
| 10 | Chain stitch , Laura thought , eyeing the weight in the ceiling cloth ( had it moved ? ) , chain stitch and 600 a term . |
| 11 | eyeing the intricacy of a timetable . |