Example sentences of "[noun] keep a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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1 | I went to school leaving Mum keeping an eye on them . |
2 | December 's page from the RAF Museum 's find 1992 calendar — a Hurricane of 615 Squadron keeping an eye on two Stirlings of 15 Squadron , from the canvas of John Young . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
5 | Business travel companies can help clients to keep a check on expenditure by providing a detailed breakdown of how much money they are spending on travel . |
6 | With a good , happy and well-looked-after staff and a first-class butler in charge of everything , all you needed was a committee of half a dozen blokes who were elected by popular vote to keep an eye on things and keep things lively , come up with new ideas , that sort of stuff . |
7 | Whilst reading the following paragraphs keep an eye on checklist 2 , and also consider the program personality headings together with program style suggestions , as decisions about these will influence the presentation of the content of the lesson and affect the environment finally created in the classroom . |
8 | Opana kept an eye on the returning aircraft in spite of the devious routes they flew back to the carriers . |
9 | Rosa gently teased Erika about the vestigial romance but was serious about the advice she gave , that Erika was not , repeat not , to get involved with a boy-friend , especially with the Indoor Championships drawing nearer , and with the Ministry of Sport keeping an eye on her . |
10 | The Response controller keeps an eye on its peripherals by constantly ‘ polling ’ them in sequence . |
11 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
12 | The new economic programmes are muddled compromises between the ambitions of growth-seeking reformers in the coastal provinces and the desperate efforts by Beijing 's central planners to keep a grip on the economy . |
13 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
14 | I 've asked Lissa to keep an eye on the computer . |
15 | In addition , there are pressures on companies to keep a check on the growth of fixed working capital in stocks and intermediate stores ( work-in-progress ) . |
16 | He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett . |
17 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
18 | Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on . |
19 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
20 | He could do worse than spend his evening keeping an eye on her . |
21 | The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on . |
22 | The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on . |
23 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
24 | The Queen Mother is also a shrewd judge of character who makes it her business to keep an eye on new members of the family and , if necessary , step in to protect her beloved ‘ firm ’ . |
25 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
26 | One point to keep an eye on here is that the page printer has sufficient memory , a full page graphic at 300 dots per inch needs about 1M of RAM . |
27 | Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway . |
28 | He despatched various officers to villages north of the Thames , and local PCs kept an eye on the sparse river crossings in case James should double back into Berkshire . |
29 | Oh Mr kept an eye on us . |
30 | THIS wipe-clean wall chart keeps a check on the number of swabs , instruments and needles which come into the theatre during the operation and all those going out . |