Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] straight in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 2 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 3 | Wilkerson looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ You could kill me , Nicky . |
| 4 | Wilkerson took the cartons from us and looked me straight in the eye . |
| 5 | At one point during the meal , she reached over to me , put her hand on mine , looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ I think you are a lesbian . ’ |
| 6 | But my prize for all time lack of observation goes to the old gentleman who , after walking past row upon row of fish tanks , stacks of fish food and eye-catching displays of pond accessories , looked me straight in the eye and said : ‘ Do you do cheese and tomato sandwiches ? ’ |
| 7 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 8 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 9 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 10 | He looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 11 | Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall . |
| 12 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 13 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 14 | Trying to look as dignified as she could , under the circumstances , she looked him straight in the eyes , with more than a touch of defiance . |
| 15 | Robert looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 16 | Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 17 | Mark looked him straight in the eye . |
| 18 | She looked him straight in the eye and said , ‘ Do you know , dearie , it 's a matter of the utmost indifference to me what you do . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Bewdsley looked him straight in the eye . |
| 20 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 21 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 22 | She raised her lashes , raised her chin , looked him straight in the eye through a controlled mist of tears . |
| 23 | ‘ Excuse me , you ca n't leave that there ! ’ she said firmly , and looked him straight in the eye . |