Example sentences of "eye for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 2 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 3 | Sung looked up , meeting Bergson 's cold grey eyes for the first time in their interview , then looked down again , understanding perfectly . |
| 4 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 5 | Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met . |
| 6 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 7 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 8 | Shocked , she looked him fully in the eyes for the first time . |
| 9 | There is much more in that vein in this engaging travelogue , and Clements , with the reporter 's eye for the telling detail , also provides useful little descriptions of the local history , the flora and fauna of the countryside he passed through on his coastal odyssey . |
| 10 | But such simple tactics seemed beyond the inexperienced Hemel team , who were repeatedly caught out by American Jonathan Bow 's eye for the easy basket . |
| 11 | Sadly my list is very small , but this makes ‘ soft touches ’ , when you find them , especially pleasurable — one in the eye for the cosmic injustice . |
| 12 | Billy Butlin 's eye for the hedonistic package outstripped all competitors . |
| 13 | Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But an eye for the main chance and a shrewd business brain have also pushed him along . |
| 16 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ People who always have an eye for the main chance ! |
| 18 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 19 | But can an auction house ever hope to vet a customer 's finances with an auditor 's eye for the fine print ? |
| 20 | It 's not satire exactly , since Hayworth has too kindly an eye for the human condition . |
| 21 | It was one in the eye for the old order . |
| 22 | Her eye for the natural scene is revealed for the first time in her ‘ Alfoxden Journal ’ ( 1798 ) , the first fruit of the creative partnership between brother and sister which is celebrated at the climax of Wordsworth 's ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ . |