Example sentences of "an eye on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Certainly , Mr Major did not frame his budget with much of an eye on the next dreadful six months — and may yet be forced to raise interest rates . |
| 32 | And when Mr Kohl speaks in a way he hopes will not antagonise the Kremlin , he does so with an eye on the 350,000 Soviet troops still sitting in Germany . |
| 33 | You suggest keeping an eye on Switzerland , New Zealand and Canada as potential enemies ( March 16th ) . |
| 34 | Mrs Parvis 'll keep an eye on you . |
| 35 | Then I can keep an eye on the eggs . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Said I 'd keep an eye on the kiddy for an hour or two . |
| 37 | He says do n't be frightened , he 's keeping an eye on things for you . ’ |
| 38 | He stayed with the first secretary , H. A. R. Philby , who had promised to keep an eye on him . |
| 39 | But what would he be doing in the middle of nowhere … unless he was keeping an eye on Mungo , to see that he was safe ? |
| 40 | Keep an eye on self-seeded plants as they can show interesting colour variations . |
| 41 | John Buckingham on Foinavon , well behind this chaos , was still keeping an eye on Josh Gifford on Honey End , though he was aware that his mount would be likely to prove more one-paced than the favourite . |
| 42 | Within limits , the family of the dead soldier could form the wording of the announcement without censorship , making the death-columns ( alongside advertisements ) the only non- ‘ co-ordinated ’ parts of German newspapers ( though the SD kept an eye on them , apparently aware of their potential as an index of opinion ) . |
| 43 | It felt quite pleasant sitting at a desk , being taught geography and physics again , and keeping an eye on our son . |
| 44 | Watch Committees were organized to keep an eye on prostitution and the granting of licences to publicans . |
| 45 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 46 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 47 | The losers , with an eye on two league games they need to win to secure promotion from Four South , rested five players who represented Hampshire in the country championship semi-final against Lancashire last month . |
| 48 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 49 | I am a pawn and bishop down after 12 moves , but have only half an eye on the game now , which seems to make me play better , or Sergei play worse , for he has pushed up his queen too far and is having trouble defending it . |
| 50 | In two cases , because they were part-time farms and there was no one to keep an eye on the cows and calves , these had to be sold and replaced with store stock . |
| 51 | The areas where neighbours would keep an eye on things were Wester Ross and Speyside , both close-knit farming communities . |
| 52 | We 'll keep an eye on 'un . ’ |
| 53 | With an eye on the speed indicator , he eased the main out an extra couple of inches and did the same for the jib . |
| 54 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 55 | So far , even though we have kept an eye on the question of political authority , the discussion has been concerned with the wider notion of authority in general . |
| 56 | Mrs Oliver is walking the dog , Alfred has washed and tidied away the tea things while keeping an eye on the shop from the adjoining neat and spotlessly clean flat . |
| 57 | He despatched various officers to villages north of the Thames , and local PCs kept an eye on the sparse river crossings in case James should double back into Berkshire . |
| 58 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 59 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 60 | So I must leave him here , and you to keep an eye on him . |