Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pos pn] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 2 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 3 | She experimented with her new optic , shifting her patch to her right eye and perceiving the world through heat patterns . |
| 4 | Her eyes rounded and she hugged every scrap of blanket she could around her body , making a barrier to his hot eyes . |
| 5 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 6 | She looked at the pictures of the Spitfire , and trembled to think that his survival depended , in part , on such a little plane , almost like a child 's toy to her sophisticated eyes . |
| 7 | He was repeatedly punched and kicked as he lay helpless on the ground , and suffering a fractured cheekbone , a broken arm and damage to his left eye . |
| 8 | The millionaire raised a hand to his left eye and massaged the lid gently as though it were sore . |
| 9 | Forgetting her earlier indignation , excitement bringing a sparkle to her golden eyes , Luce hurried over to look at them more closely . |
| 10 | But beauties like Sophia Loren and Michelle Pfeiffer bring a sparkle to his baggy eyes . |
| 11 | Soon he could no longer bear to apply the scorching lens to his right eye and was obliged to hold it to his left , which he did more clumsily than ever . |
| 12 | The Judge found in favour of Sergt. Kerr … but for the plaintiff against P. C. Neame for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment , assessing the damages at £100 with costs … it was alleged the plaintiff was struck by both police officers and severely handled in the street and in the Bridewell , with the result that he received an injury to his right eye which necessitated its removal in hospital … |