Example sentences of "[vb pp] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have also caught the eye of estate agents . |
| 2 | Although the Japanese have long led the commercialisation of HDTV , it is American technology that has caught the eye of French diplomats . |
| 3 | My father , the one scholar in a large family , had caught the eye of the village schoolmaster and been coached by oil-lamp in the evening for an examination offering access to that rare privilege for the children of the poor , a secondary-school education . |
| 4 | Norwood-born , Nick was our tenacious , skilful and hard-running midfield man , ( though occasionally he would play out on the right wing for us ) who had first caught the eye of Malcolm Allison . |
| 5 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 6 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 7 | The twins had caught the eye of one of the boys sitting in the front row of the choir . |
| 8 | The megatons of cash generated by the football World Cups have clearly caught the eye of most other sports , and now we have athletics World Cups to contend with . |
| 9 | But it 's caught the eye of the business man , |
| 10 | And do n't forget that the hilltop you cast your eye over when looking for an old route would have caught the eye of a medieval traveller as a good place to rest — and to lose coins . |
| 11 | McIvor , from Newbuildings , outside Londonderry , has already caught the eye of Billy Bingham . |
| 12 | But their success has caught the eye of Tewkesbury Borough Council , which says that the land is for agricultural use only , and should not be used as a retail outlet for bonsai trees . |
| 13 | Shintillo , trained by Dettori 's guv'nor Luca Cumani , had caught the eye in two hot Newmarket maidens , and looked a nice horse for next year when cruising to a facile six-length defeat of Cannon Carew . |
| 14 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 15 | There was a lot more to this , Wexford thought with frustration , than met the eye . |
| 16 | But there was more to Diana Spencer than met the eye . |
| 17 | Jim was a moody sort of individual , was n't he , he had n't liked being asked ; in Philip 's opinion there was more to Jim than met the eye . |
| 18 | I felt , however , that there was more to this seduction than met the eye , since genuine invention informs drawing after drawing . |
| 19 | There was far more in this than met the eye . |
| 20 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 21 | We all sat around cross-legged picking at bits of the sheep and I was offered the eye by the Sheik , which I understand was a kind of honour . |
| 22 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 23 | When parallel lines are closely hatched the eye prefers to assume that light flows along them . |
| 24 | Both sectors have long experienced the eye of professional bodies , which accredit the degree courses designed to produce recruits for their profession . |
| 25 | The ship flared , briefly brightening the scene below — whereas earlier the distorted reflections of that ethereal lacework strobing from the ebon city had only confused the eye . |
| 26 | We were never without one for even when your friends were unavailable , it was still possible to have splendid games just bouncing the ball against a wall and catching it , something that gave hours of pleasure and , what was more important , trained the eye . |
| 27 | He had not lost the eye , but the upper lid was neatly sliced . |
| 28 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |