Example sentences of "be eyed [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There will need to be an assessment of which overseas markets offer the most opportunities at the same time as looking for early signs of local companies being eyed by competitors as ripe for merger or acquisition , forecasting what the effects of this might be on the locality .
2 CREWE 's Craig Hignett is eyed by Palace and Arsenal .
3 CREWE 'S Craig Hignett is eyed by Palace and Arsenal .
4 There was a strange picture in one of the bedrooms of a centaur-like creature , a horse with the torso and head of a man , presenting itself at a forge to be shod , where it was eyed with fearful fascination by the smith and a crowd of onlookers .
5 One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 .
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