Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get stuck in a crowd of people coming out the tube and I have to stand on tiptoe so I can keep my eye on her . |
| 2 | ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 3 | It 's alright I 'll just keep I 'll just keep my eye on her Where are you going ? |
| 4 | I 'll keep my eye on it . |
| 5 | She picked up both the paper and the keys , and this time held her arms out immediately in front of her — where she could keep her eye on both at the same time . |
| 6 | Apes do n't understand profit and in any case can never keep their eye on this ball . |
| 7 | ‘ Whilst recognising that staff in other parts of AEA would undoubtedly be more concerned , he and his colleagues in the UK and overseas subsidiaries knew that they had to ‘ Keep their eye on the ball , push ahead with product development , sell hard and achieve their demanding targets for growth . ’ |
| 8 | The male red-wings do quite well out of this arrangement since they father most of their female 's offspring — most , not all , since the male can not keep his eye on all his females simultaneously and some will happily mate with males in the territories next door . |
| 9 | He had promised William Tanner he would keep his eye on his daughter and make sure that she was treated right and that none of the customers took advantage of her . |
| 10 | I he reason you need to watch the rod carefully is not because bites on slugs are hard to see , but because you risk losing the rod if you do not keep your eye on it . |
| 11 | ‘ You can not keep your eye on children every minute of the day , although people might make sure they do it now , ’ said the butcher . |
| 12 | You ca n't keep your eye on every single player in the league . |
| 13 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 14 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 15 | One man who may have his eye on it is David Mellor , Secretary for National Heritage . |
| 16 | Even so , while in " crisis mode " he will have his eye on the organization , carefully watching how the systems cope , how emergency procedures work and , most importantly , how the people around him take the strain and react . |
| 17 | The popular Lisburn player is top seed in the Class Two singles at the Shankill Junior and Graded Open in Shankill Leisure Centre , but will have his eye on Limavady player Nathan Cook . |
| 18 | They could fix their eye on the old enmity with Turkey ; but that was manifestly leading nowhere . |
| 19 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is on the telly all the time telling us he ca n't put his eye on a labour government to be firm with Gadaffi of Libya or sa or Saddam Hussein of Iraq . |