Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an eye for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 2 | It was a good room , she decided , severe , yet opulent She already had an eye for such things . |
| 3 | Kylie has always had an eye for composition and colour , and is particularly gifted in the art of watercolour . |
| 4 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 5 | She always had an eye for a bargain and was very astute in her shopping . |
| 6 | Confidence men always have an eye for extra exits . |
| 7 | ‘ People who always have an eye for the main chance ! |
| 8 | Beardsley and David Platt would provide a very mobile midfield that also has an eye for goals . |
| 9 | They also have an eye for a catchy phrase . |
| 10 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |