Example sentences of "[verb] an eye [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first , which was the officially approved response , was ‘ to make the work interesting ’ by developing contacts with shopkeepers and others on the beat , and keeping an eye open for unusual activity … |
| 2 | Routine care consists of keeping an eye open for pests and diseases along with the occasional division of aquatic plants . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been keeping an eye open for you . ’ |
| 4 | I thought we might just keep an eye open for Margaret and Beth |
| 5 | Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up . |
| 6 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 7 | But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials , and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes : ‘ synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials ’ . |
| 8 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 9 | But it would be worth making contact with Miss Frances Needham-Burrell when she arrived and asking her — when sorting out her cousin 's effects — to keep an eye open for letters with a threatening or abusive content . |
| 10 | Engineers and manufacturers of the nineteenth century had to keep an eye open for the rather too-well-informed casual visitor , making notes and sketches of what was going on . |
| 11 | Norman Fowler was no doubt preaching the virtues of greater European integration , while Bruce Anderson , a roving columnist , was talking to Sir Teddy Taylor , the discrepancy in height between them permitting Anderson to keep an eye open for bigger fish . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've no idea , but it seemed sensible to keep an eye open for anyone in the grounds . ’ |
| 13 | Sgt Biggs is urging all anglers to keep an eye open for anything suspicious . |
| 14 | In the LP days Altarus released the first-ever recordings of piano music by John Foulds , thus casting overdue light on a substantial but hitherto shadowy figure ( I understand this recording is scheduled for re-issue — keep an eye open for it : the music is wonderful ) . |
| 15 | Also keep an eye open for any aphids on chrysanthemums . |
| 16 | Visit garden centres and keep an eye open for reject trees and shrubs . |
| 17 | After that walkers need to dress as for an English summer and keep an eye open for thunderstorms . |
| 18 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |