Example sentences of "eye for [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T. D. The discipline was tyranny but it was n't bad for us — two policemen walking along the road together , talking about women or football like everybody else , and they ca n't keep their eyes for crime or for offences being committed under their noses . |
| 2 | It 's tough work staging the Battle of Edgehill , with an eye for authenticity and tough on the props that bring realism to a 350 year old battle . |
| 3 | ‘ Eric has good feet and a keen eye for goal and he 'll do well for us . ’ |
| 4 | Eric has good feet and a keen eye for goal and he 'll do well for us . ’ |
| 5 | Football : Non-League Notebook : Kelly 's eye for fist and chips |
| 6 | Helen Carpenter has always taken an interest in clothes and has a good eye for colour but , approaching 40 , she felt it was time to rethink some areas of her looks . |
| 7 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 8 | It was a well-proportioned house , Lissa decided , the lines drawn with an unfailing eye for symmetry and beauty . |
| 9 | She developed an eye for fashion and an air of glamour and all heads would turn as we walked along . |
| 10 | He had the eye for detail and concern for quality lacking in Stoll or Samuelson , as well as the sort of business acumen that neither Hepworth nor Pearson had ever displayed . |
| 11 | She has any eye for detail and a steady hand to piece it all together . |
| 12 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 13 | The film charts her transformation from soulmate to psychopath with relentless logic and a fine eye for creepiness and is only let down by its over-the-top climax . |
| 14 | And then there are the tougher types : Edmund from King Lear , a romantic macho figure with a wide eye for fame and fortune . |