Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good room , she decided , severe , yet opulent She already had an eye for such things . |
| 2 | You do n't overtake , you just keep an eye on me and keep the same distance away . |
| 3 | Mum knew this too , which was why she always kept an eye on him when he was the worse for drink . |
| 4 | She always had an eye for a bargain and was very astute in her shopping . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ Melody in Fern Cottage with Seb , without me around to keep an eye on the pair of ‘ em ? |
| 7 | They also have an eye for a catchy phrase . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The local EHO was satisfied with our standards during his last visit and our maintenance manager is our health and officer so he also keeps an eye on things . ’ |