Example sentences of "[vb pp] a eye [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 3 | The engineers at Audi , too , have cast an eye to the environment . |
| 4 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 5 | So far , even though we have kept an eye on the question of political authority , the discussion has been concerned with the wider notion of authority in general . |
| 6 | He had lost an eye as a child and wore an eyeglass in the remaining one . |