Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I he reason you need to watch the rod carefully is not because bites on slugs are hard to see , but because you risk losing the rod if you do not keep your eye on it . |
2 | ‘ You can not keep your eye on children every minute of the day , although people might make sure they do it now , ’ said the butcher . |
3 | The male red-wings do quite well out of this arrangement since they father most of their female 's offspring — most , not all , since the male can not keep his eye on all his females simultaneously and some will happily mate with males in the territories next door . |
4 | You ca n't keep your eye on every single player in the league . |
5 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is on the telly all the time telling us he ca n't put his eye on a labour government to be firm with Gadaffi of Libya or sa or Saddam Hussein of Iraq . |