Example sentences of "eye for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 2 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 4 | With a fine eye for the lie of the land , they select a particular point along the stream and then start to build their dam . |
| 5 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |