Example sentences of "[vb -s] an eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | He himself has an eye on the post of super-manager of a new Yugoslav ‘ economic space ’ and has called leaders from all the republics to talks on January 10th . |
| 2 | She is intelligent , sensitive , and has an eye for an elegant fabric . |
| 3 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 4 | He has an eye — his work is not just about technique , but has a balance and a feeling that make it exceptional ’ . |
| 5 | Sue Townsend has an eye and an ear for the ridiculous : the thought of a son putting away all sharp instruments to stop his father killing himself moves us to laughter . |
| 6 | Beardsley and David Platt would provide a very mobile midfield that also has an eye for goals . |
| 7 | James de Rothschild had left the ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ panels to the Tel Aviv Museum , but Lord Rothschild , who is Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and before that , Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery , and who therefore has an eye out for works of art with special meaning to Britain , persuaded the Museum to cede its interest in the panels in exchange for ‘ a significant sum of money ’ . |
| 8 | The PROFITBOSS has an eye on the market when others have an eye on themselves . |
| 9 | He has an eye for beauty , I would say . |
| 10 | An ancient marine mollusc , known as nautilus , has an eye like a pin-hole camera . |
| 11 | That Desmond , I 'm pretty sure , has an eye for money . ’ |
| 12 | It has an eye , and around that eye are the circular flows of the seasons , moving very slowly in a number of distinct zones . |
| 13 | Her jaw is removed , and then as the disease spreads she loses an eye . |
| 14 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 15 | Still battling : Attacked pensioner loses an eye . |
| 16 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 17 | GREG CAMPBELL casts an eye over the principal contenders and comes up with a Victorian prop . |
| 18 | Dressed in full flying kit and with a parachute pack at his feet , the airman casts an eye skywards , his left arm raised to obstruct the sun 's glare ( left ) . |
| 19 | Food safety minister David Maclean casts an eye over one of the incinerators at the companions rest animal crematorium , at Elmstone Hardwick near Cheltenham . |
| 20 | He moves round and keeps an eye . |
| 21 | She supervises the pre-felting embroidery , keeps an eye on stock , trains people to work the machine . |
| 22 | While Smith is elsewhere Tom Clarke , the Labour candidate in neighbouring Monklands West , who has an equally comfortable majority , obligingly ‘ keeps an eye ’ on things . |
| 23 | He helps Pancks , whose landlord he is , to establish Mr Dorrit 's claim to his inheritance , and while Clennam is imprisoned in the Marshalsea he keeps an eye on his affairs ; Anastasia , his unprepossessing , middle-aged daughter , who cherishes the recollection of once having won an action for breach of promise . |
| 24 | The Boffins take care of him when Betty goes away , and disguised as a dustman , he keeps an eye on Wegg whilst Boffin 's mounds are cleared to see that nothing is stolen . |
| 25 | The Response controller keeps an eye on its peripherals by constantly ‘ polling ’ them in sequence . |
| 26 | A good general practitioner keeps an eye on the health of his elderly patients , knows the score , and can conduct the whole orchestra of welfare on their behalf when they need it . |
| 27 | The female cuckoo is thus very restricted as to where she can lay her eggs , and it is important that she keeps an eye on the whereabouts of potential hosts . |
| 28 | At the same time the SMS Manager checks that the various storage groups and classes have been set up properly , while the Hierarchical Storage Manager keeps an eye on the way in which data is migrated across media types , avoiding the thrashing that can occur when , for example an application accesses some data every four days and the system is set up to dump unused data to tape storage after three . |
| 29 | I live with Auntie , she keeps an eye on me . ’ |
| 30 | Inspector Blakelock gets here early those mornings to let them in and Scobie keeps an eye on them . |