Example sentences of "have an eye [prep] " 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 | He himself has an eye on the post of super-manager of a new Yugoslav ‘ economic space ’ and has called leaders from all the republics to talks on January 10th . |
| 6 | The PROFITBOSS has an eye on the market when others have an eye on themselves . |
| 7 | An ancient marine mollusc , known as nautilus , has an eye like a pin-hole camera . |
| 8 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Mantini would have had an eye for that . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And the designers at Adorno 's had an eye for fashion . |
| 13 | There was n't a man watching , or a woman , who had n't had an eye on him in admiration . |
| 14 | But A&R people do not stay A&R people for very long if they do n't have an eye on both money and art simultaneously . |
| 15 | Such a community profile must have an eye to the future . |
| 16 | Whatever the nature of the immediate problem , the professional must always have an eye to helping parents generalise the skills they have learned . |
| 17 | All British governments , however large their majority , must have an eye to the next election and an effective opposition will take maximum advantage of that fact . |
| 18 | The RNLI must always have an eye to the future , anticipating the needs of sea rescue many years ahead . |
| 19 | I acknowledge that we must have an eye to the international experience , and our work internationally is to try to ensure that other countries , too , put up their premiums in a way that sensibly recognises the problems of such cover throughout the world . |
| 20 | For him , it 's like having an eye at the end of his fingertips . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You do seem to have an eye for essentials . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In my profession , it pays to have an eye for art . |
| 24 | Certainly , there remain some domains of research which are disinterested , but the incentive to have an eye to the main chance grows . |
| 25 | Surrounded by his flock he nonetheless had an eye on Omi and Erika and , although he made no apparent attempt to meet them , Erika and Omi found themselves facing him . |
| 26 | There 's no money to stake you — if you had an eye on that win from the cockfight — it 's gone towards paying my debts … a drop in the ocean . ’ |
| 27 | Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed . |
| 28 | I think she thought I had an eye on your grandad . ’ |
| 29 | He had an eye on the goal difference as Newcastle were closing the gap between us and Sheff Utd . |
| 30 | Thus , although the main aim of our research was to help Wirral Council to develop policies and plan services for heroin users , based on a sound empirical base , we also had an eye to improving methods of estimating prevalence which any community might employ to answer such questions as : How many residents are known to use heroin or other illicit drugs ? |