Example sentences of "keep [art] eye on [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , Helen and Geoff are away ( with the children , of course , it 's Spain again this year I think ) , and Mr Davis 's boy Kevin from the house on the corner is keeping an eye on things and doing the garden for them . |
| 2 | Although he was supposed to be in charge of the printing works it was the foreman , Mike Treloar , who ran it with Uncle keeping an eye on things and deciding policy . |
| 3 | Yeah erm I du n no if it would do much good actually but er yeah but er no she , she 's , she 's quite good about you know sort of erm you know kind of keeping an eye on students and , and stuff like that , anyway er so if you could right |
| 4 | With one sergeant I had then , I used to make up stories about keeping an eye on thieves if he did n't find me at the points . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Traditionally , Archdeacon Oliver explains , archdeacons dealt with legal and property matters , but although they still have to keep an eye on architects and parsonage houses , their work is far more , nowadays , to do with pastoral negotiation . |
| 7 | For one thing , as I can report , having kept an eye on proceedings since they disappeared from the newspapers and TV , all the witnesses are affected by the disease of official language . |