Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that I would keep an eye on Tom after that . |
| 2 | The Lea & Perrins box this time , where Serafin sat , so that I can keep an eye on Summerchild . |
| 3 | You ca n't go wrong , because I 'm so used to doing these operations that I can keep an eye on the cat 's breathing at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Some of us said that we would keep an eye on what happened to that Act in the years that followed . |
| 5 | I acknowledge that we must have an eye to the international experience , and our work internationally is to try to ensure that other countries , too , put up their premiums in a way that sensibly recognises the problems of such cover throughout the world . |
| 6 | One very important thing for older people living alone is to let friends and neighbours know that they are ill , so that they can keep an eye on them and obviously you know , do the shopping and bring in any , anything that they might need . |
| 7 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |