Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] an eye for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Mantini would have had an eye for that . |
| 2 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 3 | ‘ You do seem to have an eye for essentials . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In my profession , it pays to have an eye for art . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the designers at Adorno 's had an eye for fashion . |
| 7 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |