Example sentences of "[pos pn] eye [prep] the [adj] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybil had her eye on the main chance , and so have a lot of other women over the years . |
| 2 | How dared he speak to her as though she was some trollop with her eye to the main chance ! |
| 3 | No one had the foresight to tell Charlie Nicholas , the young Glaswegian in a white leather suit , about a species infinitely more troublesome than rent-boy racketeers : cockney football agents with their eye on the main chance . |
| 4 | Without any difficulty Coffin identified Chief Inspector Salter and one of his inspectors , a man called Stoker , said to have his eye on the main chance . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've had your eye on the main chance from the very beginning , have n't you ? |