Example sentences of "'s eye for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles , honoured by being momentarily cast a Chinese emperor , dabbed ink on the lion 's eyes for luck . |
| 2 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 3 | Football : Non-League Notebook : Kelly 's eye for fist and chips |
| 4 | He was drunk for sure and unafraid , of the barman , Paddy 's crutch , but stilt a miser 's eye for money . |
| 5 | She was possessed of a fine and original mind ; she had the artist 's eye for subject , scene and colour . |
| 6 | Thomas 's eye for practicality is particularly useful , and extends to addresses of electronics suppliers , and the price ( high ) of aequorin , a photoprotein . |
| 7 | With his Yorkshireman 's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process . |
| 8 | Beginning with the whirling bustle of the theatre scenes , Pierre L'homme 's camera and Rappeneau 's eye for detail turn more intimate moments like the balcony scene into a wondrous symphony of white light flecked with shadows . |
| 9 | We do n't all have Watkins ' advantages : a lifetime 's familiarity and sympathy with his native countryside ; the photographer 's eye for detail , for the unusual and for the properly framed view ; and the advantage of access to the countryside as part of his daily work . |
| 10 | Edouard de Chavigny 's eye for detail was well known ; no aspect , however small , connected with the running of his companies escaped his notice . |
| 11 | Sarah 's eye for stardom is not just restricted to models . |