Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 2 | Madonna sits confidently in the eye of the swirling controversy and says , ‘ They do n't get the joke . ’ |
| 3 | It is as part answer to that question that I have put forward the notion of language as screen , the dazzling play of words and tones , fragments , sequences , movements this way and that — calls constantly to the eye and ear of the reader . |
| 4 | Dabblers like the mallard seem to demand that the spiral moves clockwise from the eye over the full round forehead . |
| 5 | But the sooty is ‘ blacker ’ above with a white forehead that extends only to the eye , while on the bridled the white forehead extends over and a little way beyond the eye . |
| 6 | This takes the form of a stripe , band or patch of dark colour that runs right through the eye and effectively makes it invisible . |