Example sentences of "eye for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
| 2 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
| 3 | He said , I 've only got eyes for one person . |
| 4 | His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself . |
| 5 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
| 6 | ‘ I keep telling you , it 's not the heating , ’ said Angalo , straining his eyes for any sign of a descending Ship . |
| 7 | I blink my eyes for some inkling of orientation , but the high-pitched multi-signals whine and cascade about in my head just to make things quite clear that they 're not going to be harassed into full-powered service tonight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As her silence lengthened a muscle flexed in his jaw and she saw a flicker of murderous rage in his eye for one instant . |
| 10 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 11 | With an eye for contemporary styling Verity Lambert agreed that Susan Foreman should have specially-cut hair , radically different from the back-combed , upswept or pony-tail styles of her early Sixties class mates . |
| 12 | And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention . |
| 13 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 14 | His best pictures have a telling eye for multi-layered detail . |
| 15 | It seemed to Kelly that she was trying to catch her eye for some reason . |
| 16 | The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security . |
| 17 | But it was Eadmer , with his keen eye for significant detail , who noted two points omitted by Osbern : he observed that , as the monks stood round the sufferer , each of the two groups spoke a language which the other could not understand ; and also he remarked that things went more smoothly after this event . |
| 18 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 19 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 20 | 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 . |