Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pos pn] eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I he reason you need to watch the rod carefully is not because bites on slugs are hard to see , but because you risk losing the rod if you do not keep your eye on it . |
| 2 | ‘ You can not keep your eye on children every minute of the day , although people might make sure they do it now , ’ said the butcher . |
| 3 | The male red-wings do quite well out of this arrangement since they father most of their female 's offspring — most , not all , since the male can not keep his eye on all his females simultaneously and some will happily mate with males in the territories next door . |
| 4 | In conversation , people do not fix their eyes on you and make notes : they are informal and natural , while talks are set piece , formal occasions . |
| 5 | Could he not open his eyes on a better scene , a less sordid spectacle ? |
| 6 | That 's their problem , if they ca n't keep their eyes on the road . |
| 7 | You ca n't keep your eye on every single player in the league . |
| 8 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is on the telly all the time telling us he ca n't put his eye on a labour government to be firm with Gadaffi of Libya or sa or Saddam Hussein of Iraq . |