Example sentences of "eye for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dispensing optician supplies glasses , but does n't test your child 's eyes for the prescription . |
| 2 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 3 | The traditional division of language into the spoken and the written is clearly and sensibly based on a difference in production and reception : we use our mouths and ears for one , and our hands and eyes for the other . |
| 4 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 5 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 6 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | This time the chasm yawned in front of her , and she knew that she might close her eyes for the moment , but she was already taking little steps towards the edge . |
| 8 | With a fine eye for the lie of the land , they select a particular point along the stream and then start to build their dam . |
| 9 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |
| 10 | To have a Coronation Street star and Cilla Black introducing your rallies showed an eye for the bathetic . |
| 11 | The docks , the University of London , the theatre in the age of Kean , the London art world , Rudolph Ackermann and British commerce are all examined in the marvellous introductory essays by Simon Jervis , Ian Jenkins , Celina Fox and others which combine detailed research with an eye for the smell and feel of the city . |
| 12 | On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it . |
| 13 | Sister will put a pad over your eye for the time being ; I 'll telephone the hospital and we 'll arrange for someone to drive you over there . ’ |
| 14 | And one famous quote during a court case he presided over was : ‘ The old law of the eye for the eye and a tooth and for a tooth has no place in civilised society . ’ |
| 15 | After 64 years in the inky trade , his pen is still busy , his eye for the news as discerning as ever . |
| 16 | James Kelly : His pen is still busy , his eye for the news as discerning as ever . |
| 17 | It was another smack in the eye for the establishment . |
| 18 | She also has an unfailing eye for the object drawn from an array of public and private collections to illustrate gradual changes in techniques and materials . |