Example sentences of "have [verb] an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to keep an eye on his own kind as well as anybody else . |
| 2 | Hot on Rigby 's heels is Little Budworth 's Mike Barber who in turn has to keep an eye on Dingle 's Tony Collins , just a few points behind . |
| 3 | Mrs Mantini would have had an eye for that . |
| 4 | I 'll have to keep an eye on you . |
| 5 | she 'll have to keep an eye on him then . |
| 6 | You 'll have to keep an eye on his mouth . |
| 7 | You 'll have to keep an eye on his mouth today . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For one thing , as I can report , having kept an eye on proceedings since they disappeared from the newspapers and TV , all the witnesses are affected by the disease of official language . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 12 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 13 | Someone had to keep an eye on him . |
| 14 | ‘ But I had to keep an eye on things . ’ |
| 15 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 16 | He had lost an eye as a child and wore an eyeglass in the remaining one . |
| 17 | Emily had never had a head for figures , and her brother-in-law , Marcus Judge , had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning , gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business . |
| 18 | And the designers at Adorno 's had an eye for fashion . |
| 19 | Traditionally , Archdeacon Oliver explains , archdeacons dealt with legal and property matters , but although they still have to keep an eye on architects and parsonage houses , their work is far more , nowadays , to do with pastoral negotiation . |
| 20 | But I have to keep an eye on prices . |
| 21 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 22 | We are accountable to the public in many different ways , and we always have to keep an eye on the fact that the public are looking at what we are doing with our money and local politicians and the community 's representatives are always anxious to talk to us about what we are doing with that money and we must be prepared to answer any queries or any questions on our activities or those activities of people that we 're sponsoring . |
| 23 | The engineers at Audi , too , have cast an eye to the environment . |
| 24 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |
| 25 | 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 . |