Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] eye for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his Yorkshireman 's eye for economy he was soon suggesting that the more impecunious aeronauts might seriously consider the process . |
| 2 | We do n't all have Watkins ' advantages : a lifetime 's familiarity and sympathy with his native countryside ; the photographer 's eye for detail , for the unusual and for the properly framed view ; and the advantage of access to the countryside as part of his daily work . |
| 3 | He was drunk for sure and unafraid , of the barman , Paddy 's crutch , but stilt a miser 's eye for money . |
| 4 | Poems of the Past and the Present ( 1901 , dated 1902 ) was more warmly received , partly because some of the Boer War poems — distinguished in one commentator 's eyes for dwelling ‘ not on the glory , but on the piteousness of the struggle ’ — were already familiar through the newspapers . |
| 5 | She was possessed of a fine and original mind ; she had the artist 's eye for subject , scene and colour . |
| 6 | Prince Charles , honoured by being momentarily cast a Chinese emperor , dabbed ink on the lion 's eyes for luck . |