Example sentences of "[vb pp] an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Mantini would have had an eye for that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the designers at Adorno 's had an eye for fashion . |
| 6 | There was n't a man watching , or a woman , who had n't had an eye on him in admiration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Penry cast an eye over her hair judicially . |
| 9 | Since marrying her he had n't cast an eye on anyone else . |
| 10 | The engineers at Audi , too , have cast an eye to the environment . |
| 11 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 12 | So far , even though we have kept an eye on the question of political authority , the discussion has been concerned with the wider notion of authority in general . |
| 13 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 14 | For one thing , as I can report , having kept an eye on proceedings since they disappeared from the newspapers and TV , all the witnesses are affected by the disease of official language . |
| 15 | Mum knew this too , which was why she always kept an eye on him when he was the worse for drink . |
| 16 | Emily had never had a head for figures , and her brother-in-law , Marcus Judge , had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning , gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business . |
| 17 | He had lost an eye as a child and wore an eyeglass in the remaining one . |
| 18 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |