Example sentences of "[to-vb] an eye open [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up . |
| 2 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 3 | But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials , and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes : ‘ synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials ’ . |
| 4 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 5 | But it would be worth making contact with Miss Frances Needham-Burrell when she arrived and asking her — when sorting out her cousin 's effects — to keep an eye open for letters with a threatening or abusive content . |
| 6 | Engineers and manufacturers of the nineteenth century had to keep an eye open for the rather too-well-informed casual visitor , making notes and sketches of what was going on . |
| 7 | Norman Fowler was no doubt preaching the virtues of greater European integration , while Bruce Anderson , a roving columnist , was talking to Sir Teddy Taylor , the discrepancy in height between them permitting Anderson to keep an eye open for bigger fish . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've no idea , but it seemed sensible to keep an eye open for anyone in the grounds . ’ |
| 9 | Sgt Biggs is urging all anglers to keep an eye open for anything suspicious . |
| 10 | He knows exactly what it 's like to have to keep an eye open in every dark , steamy nook and cranny for cancer squatters . |