Example sentences of "cast an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 2 | GREG CAMPBELL casts an eye over the principal contenders and comes up with a Victorian prop . |
| 3 | Food safety minister David Maclean casts an eye over one of the incinerators at the companions rest animal crematorium , at Elmstone Hardwick near Cheltenham . |
| 4 | In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles — the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large . |
| 5 | Penry cast an eye over her hair judicially . |
| 6 | Since marrying her he had n't cast an eye on anyone else . |
| 7 | The engineers at Audi , too , have cast an eye to the environment . |
| 8 | The potatoes could cast an eye over Jean-Paul Sartre and reshape their destiny : no more chips in her house , non , non , my dear , pommes frites . |
| 9 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 10 | The nurses cast an eye at his blood pressure and look at each other . |
| 11 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 12 | Haverford , his head cocked on one side , was casting an eye over blonde girls from Sweden , Guildford or Saskatoon , quite undiscouraged when they did n't return his smile but merely quickened their pace towards the souvenir stalls . |
| 13 | The professor shrugged , casting an eye over Davide 's good jacket , to inform him that his information was unnecessary . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's something our two countries have in common , ’ she commented , casting an eye over what was available . |
| 15 | And , casting an eye towards the world championships in August , Backley insisted that if the injury hung around he would have no hesitation in pulling out of the year 's big event in Stuttgart to prevent further damage . |
| 16 | That is , of course , when I was n't actually casting an eye at the rope and pulley high over the hall or taking a glance at the shotgun . |