Example sentences of "and the [adj] eye of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard a noise , but , before she could take any evasive action , a cycle came spinning round the corner and the sharp eyes of the girl who had been cleaning the farm were on her intently . |
| 2 | She was dressed in black , as always , making Riven wonder sourly if she were mourning someone , but there was a bright smile on her face as she took in the battered condition of Murtach 's patrol ; the bandaged Hearthwares , the clawed mounts and the weary eyes of them all . |
| 3 | Only large eyes can resolve fine detail , so the tiny facets of insects ' eyes and the small eyes of spiders have poor resolution . |
| 4 | and the cellular eyes of the fly |
| 5 | This system is quite successful , and the main eyes of the hunting spider , Portia , compete with those of some vertebrates , and produce an image only about six times poorer than our own eyes . |
| 6 | The endoscope , attached to a long probe , is manoeuvred into the statues though the tiny casting holes in the feet of both , through the head of A and the missing eye of B , and its movements controlled by a television monitor . |
| 7 | And she as pretty as a picture with roses in her cheeks and the green eyes of a fairy . ’ |
| 8 | The chief magistrate , with the face of an old fox and the hard eyes of a weasel , heard me out . |