Example sentences of "[verb] one eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nelson Has One Eye on Seniors |
| 2 | Perhaps to compensate it does classical physical chemistry well , and has one eye on the expanding market for physical chemistry books among life-science students . |
| 3 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 4 | I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel . |
| 5 | Pearce had shoved Devlin back into one of the upholstered reception seats ; keeping one eye on him , the other on what was going on outside . |
| 6 | Cover one eye with your other hand and line up the pencil with the edge of a door . |
| 7 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 8 | He opened one eye on Eochaid . |
| 9 | He opened one eye at 6.30 am the following morning and there stood that efficient individual dispensing bright conversation and a cup of steaming , over-sweet tea . |
| 10 | I find I can do it much easier if I 've got one eye on the television . |
| 11 | The Fed will also have had one eye on Japan — a working model to show what a collapse in asset values can do to banks . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Chris , ’ she murmured quietly , wiping one eye with the back of her hand . |
| 13 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |
| 14 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 15 | At the sound of the preacher 's voice he twitched , wiped one eye with the back of his hand , and looked up , moistening his lips . |
| 16 | Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course you can , ’ she said , taking his arm and walking him towards the bay window , but she kept one eye on the painting in case they were tempted . |
| 18 | He kept one eye on the entrances to the Operations Room . |
| 19 | I close one eye against |
| 20 | Mrs. Sturgess was the hard working cleaner/caretaker of St. Martin 's Boys ' School whilst her husband worked in one of the many mineral water factories , unfortunately he had lost one eye in an industrial accident for which apparently no compensation was paid . |
| 21 | After all , when I taught these secrets to my art students , they had one eye on their future interview . |
| 22 | Physical indications that may be caused by defective vision : unusual head position while working ( poking forward or held sideways ) ; work held at an unusual distance or angle ; frowning , squinting or facial grimaces when trying to read ; complaints of headache or dizziness during visual activities ; covering one eye with the hand , or closing it ; aversion to bright light . |
| 23 | A short , chic style with hair covering one eye from the team at Pacific in London . |
| 24 | The piazza is huge , and roads meeting there are wide and not easy to cross ; you need one eye on the traffic , one on the trams and another on the tramlines to make sure they do not send you sprawling . |
| 25 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
| 26 | Mathers lodged the cigarette in his mouth and closed one eye against the smoke . |