Example sentences of "eye [prep] the main chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way . |
| 2 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 3 | But an eye for the main chance and a shrewd business brain have also pushed him along . |
| 4 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ People who always have an eye for the main chance ! |
| 6 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 7 | This able and likeable man was admirably adaptable to circumstances and had something of an eye to the main chance . |
| 8 | A fish with an eye to the main chance . |
| 9 | Certainly , there remain some domains of research which are disinterested , but the incentive to have an eye to the main chance grows . |
| 10 | How dared he speak to her as though she was some trollop with her eye to the main chance ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've had your eye on the main chance from the very beginning , have n't you ? |
| 14 | Sybil had her eye on the main chance , and so have a lot of other women over the years . |
| 15 | One reckless fellow with an eye on the main chance ( for there is always one ) picked up a discarded camera and prepared to take another polaroid . |