Example sentences of "[verb] half an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has half an eye on where the gun went . |
| 2 | Jopling senior , who farms near Northallerton , has half an eye on becoming Father of the House a title likely to pass to Edward Heath ( debut 1950 ) next time . |
| 3 | Allen kept half an eye on the path as he worked . |
| 4 | The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book . |
| 5 | Argument on each layer tends to have half an eye to what is at issue on the others . |
| 6 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |