Example sentences of "had an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think she thought I had an eye on your grandad . ’ |
| 5 | He had an eye on the goal difference as Newcastle were closing the gap between us and Sheff Utd . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The man that was on the mower , they had an eye to that they would just wait until it was off the the Where it was cut you see ? |
| 8 | She knew that he had an eye to the future , the farm was a desirable property . |
| 9 | He was committed to middle-of-the-road filmmaking , which he defined as ‘ escape entertainment of pleasant people in pleasant surroundings doing pleasant things ’ , had an eye for a subject that could be exploited , and was fascinated by stardom . |
| 10 | Ernest had an eye for detail , and Undertown displays this to the hilt . |
| 11 | Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . |
| 12 | It was rumoured that Laura had an eye for the men , which did nothing to consolidate the marriage , or to abate Woolridge 's white-hot temper , which was never far away . |
| 13 | More important for his choreography , he had an eye for what other dancers could achieve . |
| 14 | ‘ He was one who had an eye for such mysteries ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a former building contractor , he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar . |
| 17 | It was a good room , she decided , severe , yet opulent She already had an eye for such things . |
| 18 | The sketch was from memory , but he had an eye for detail . |
| 19 | The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security . |
| 20 | She always had an eye for a bargain and was very astute in her shopping . |
| 21 | ‘ He had an eye for the women , you mean ? ’ |
| 22 | Tim had an eye for those , he was good at remembering them . |
| 23 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 24 | She had an eye for the clean lines of a good design , did n't she ? |
| 25 | And our reporters had an eye for many a shaggy dog story . |
| 26 | You 'd think this bird had an eye for the women . |
| 27 | She had an eye for talent which they respected , she knew how to pick her designers , and could be relied on to spot a trend developing and to promote it . |