Example sentences of "[pron] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scrub nurse , Nurse del Puablo , is giving me the eye . |
| 2 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 4 | Er the delivery part it was more the cluster but the overall delivery allowed me to prepare how I was going to be standing er how to get the audience in contact with me the eye the eye contact and also the way I spoke . |
| 5 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 6 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 7 | Its major axis is the central visual ray , CVR , the centre line along which the eye is focused . |
| 8 | It was down this trough that the Severn tide roared twice daily , before relentlessly covering the high sand in the middle estuary at a rate of which the eye could see . |
| 9 | They are especially gifted and I can hardly think of a sport in which the eye is not the essential informer of the mind . |
| 10 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 11 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | Over lunch , Dobson regaled Branson with a tale of how Private Eye had suppressed a story about adulterous liaisons at a national newspaper — precisely the kind of story in which the Eye habitually delighted — because of the interests of some Eye contributors who worked for the paper . |
| 13 | Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face . |
| 14 | you the eye . |
| 15 | All you had to do was walk past in high heels and a tight skirt with your popper beads hanging down your button-up cardigan and a bra which shaped your breasts into sharply protruding cones and they exploded into admiring noises , gave you the eye , even followed you home . |
| 16 | A female friend of mine used a particularly effective trick for discouraging men who persisted in giving her the eye on trains or buses . |
| 17 | While Hyacinth awarded marks , others , just as predatory , were giving her the eye . |
| 18 | What the eye does n't see … |
| 19 | But once more ironically , it is what the Eye does not see that matters . |
| 20 | The touch of the finger tip corroborates what the eye beholds . |
| 21 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 22 | One of , one of the things is the , is the , I do n't know what the eye is the good thing to have in the , if somehow or other |
| 23 | ‘ What the eye does n't see , ’ he said breathlessly . |
| 24 | And anyway , " she winked , " what the eye does n't see , the heart does n't grieve over . |
| 25 | Though what the eye saw was increasingly dismal . |