Example sentences of "[verb] [det] an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has half an eye on where the gun went . |
| 2 | Jopling senior , who farms near Northallerton , has half an eye on becoming Father of the House a title likely to pass to Edward Heath ( debut 1950 ) next time . |
| 3 | Allen kept half an eye on the path as he worked . |
| 4 | The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book . |
| 5 | Argument on each layer tends to have half an eye to what is at issue on the others . |
| 6 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 7 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 8 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 9 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |