Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [adj] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Profitboss himself will be keeping an entrepreneurial eye on the marketplace , seizing initiatives to improve services further and expand his customer base . |
| 2 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 3 | There were , however , earlier reports of US Navy craft ( using their docking facilities in Bahrain ) moving behind tankers making their way through the Gulf by night , keeping an unsolicited eye on them . |
| 4 | Only Alexander Mackendrick at Ealing and David Lean seemed able , to some extent , to sustain their earlier initiatives , the one by focusing an acerbic eye on the state of England , the other by applying his extraordinary craftsmanship to such international films as The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) . |
| 5 | She did so , casting an experienced eye over him . |
| 6 | As Kylie 's business empire was already planning for the 1990s — estimates of its overall earnings are now a staggering £4.5 million a month — virtually every music executive in the world was casting an envious eye at what was being acknowledged as one of the best business operations pop had ever seen . |