Example sentences of "have a [adj] eye [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has a sharp eye for a toyboy . |
| 2 | She also has an unfailing eye for the object drawn from an array of public and private collections to illustrate gradual changes in techniques and materials . |
| 3 | He had a good eye for a defensible site , had St Kentigern . ’ |
| 4 | Ernie was built in the strong mould of the traditional full-back of the time , but he was cool under pressure and had a keen eye for a volleyed clearance to avert any threatening danger , so that it was entirely fitting when the Football League honoured him with a place in one of their representative sides in the autumn of 1921 . |
| 5 | Dr Foley had a wandering eye as a young man . |
| 6 | He had a shrewd eye for the false and the fraud . |
| 7 | Halevy , who had an acute eye for the ideological delusions of the British , observed that when Labour leaders looked for solutions to the problem of unemployment they turned , not to socialism , but to the traditions of liberal internationalism : |
| 8 | The Thames Valley Police have a new eye in the sky . |