Example sentences of "[verb] an eye for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is intelligent , sensitive , and has an eye for an elegant fabric . |
| 2 | Beardsley and David Platt would provide a very mobile midfield that also has an eye for goals . |
| 3 | He has an eye for beauty , I would say . |
| 4 | That Desmond , I 'm pretty sure , has an eye for money . ’ |
| 5 | Many skills such as ploughing , using a scythe , working with horses , or developing an eye for livestock may take years to attain ; the later in life you come to it , the slower the progress . |
| 6 | DEVELOPING AN EYE FOR DETAIL |
| 7 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 8 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 9 | Mrs Mantini would have had an eye for that . |
| 10 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 11 | And the designers at Adorno 's had an eye for fashion . |
| 12 | To have a Coronation Street star and Cilla Black introducing your rallies showed an eye for the bathetic . |
| 13 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 14 | She developed an eye for fashion and an air of glamour and all heads would turn as we walked along . |
| 15 | And it makes you realise that , though he may be famous for having an eye for the ladies , he also has an ear for a good song . |
| 16 | There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey , a wagon-train exodus , a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth . |
| 17 | ‘ You do seem to have an eye for essentials . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In my profession , it pays to have an eye for art . |
| 19 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |
| 20 | He was committed to middle-of-the-road filmmaking , which he defined as ‘ escape entertainment of pleasant people in pleasant surroundings doing pleasant things ’ , had an eye for a subject that could be exploited , and was fascinated by stardom . |
| 21 | Ernest had an eye for detail , and Undertown displays this to the hilt . |
| 22 | Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . |
| 23 | It was rumoured that Laura had an eye for the men , which did nothing to consolidate the marriage , or to abate Woolridge 's white-hot temper , which was never far away . |
| 24 | More important for his choreography , he had an eye for what other dancers could achieve . |
| 25 | ‘ He was one who had an eye for such mysteries ? ’ |
| 26 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 27 | As a former building contractor , he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar . |
| 28 | It was a good room , she decided , severe , yet opulent She already had an eye for such things . |
| 29 | The sketch was from memory , but he had an eye for detail . |
| 30 | The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security . |