Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a Coronation Street star and Cilla Black introducing your rallies showed an eye for the bathetic . |
| 2 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 3 | Whilst reading the following paragraphs keep an eye on checklist 2 , and also consider the program personality headings together with program style suggestions , as decisions about these will influence the presentation of the content of the lesson and affect the environment finally created in the classroom . |
| 4 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on . |
| 6 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We are experiencing a temporary respite but retailers have an eye over their shoulder to the cold , dark days of January and February which will be hard , ’ said marketing manager Ron Woodman . |
| 9 | Lucy Lane was assigned to the bookshop ; among other things to keep an eye on the opening of the safe . |
| 10 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |
| 11 | Should a cat appear , ducks immediately increase their peeking rates to keep an eye on it . |
| 12 | Maybe one of Bonanza 's men keeping an eye on me . |
| 13 | Watching and waiting — the police keeping an eye on the hippies . |
| 14 | Maybe Carmichael sent some guys to keep an eye on me . |
| 15 | And our reporters had an eye for many a shaggy dog story . |
| 16 | Out of necessity , publishers have an eye to their profits and neither a work 's inclusion in a catalogue or collection , nor instant popularity , guarantees its suitability . |
| 17 | Before you load up your board on the car to go off in search of solitude , remember that it is wisest to sail in a controlled situation with plenty of others to keep an eye on you . |
| 18 | The nurses cast an eye at his blood pressure and look at each other . |
| 19 | The PROFITBOSS has an eye on the market when others have an eye on themselves . |
| 20 | She says women have an eye for minutiae , they see the curtain has n't been drawn or the untied shoelace . |