Example sentences of "[noun] to keep an eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
| 4 | I 've asked Lissa to keep an eye on the computer . |
| 5 | He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett . |
| 6 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 7 | The Queen Mother is also a shrewd judge of character who makes it her business to keep an eye on new members of the family and , if necessary , step in to protect her beloved ‘ firm ’ . |
| 8 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
| 9 | One point to keep an eye on here is that the page printer has sufficient memory , a full page graphic at 300 dots per inch needs about 1M of RAM . |
| 10 | Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway . |
| 11 | Lucy Lane was assigned to the bookshop ; among other things to keep an eye on the opening of the safe . |
| 12 | The author 's been unable to resist popping down to the set once in a while to keep an eye on how it 's going . |
| 13 | Satraps usually had the military authority where the satrapal authority was divided , as it sometimes was ( see p. 281 ) ; and such divided commands could enable the king to keep an eye on the ambitious . |
| 14 | Lewis and Beryl , of course , had never gone near Wyvis Hall , they would not have laid themselves open to such humiliation , to the possibility of their way being barred by some yokel , paid by Adam to keep an eye on the place . |
| 15 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |
| 16 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |
| 17 | So there were people to keep an eye on you . |
| 18 | Should a cat appear , ducks immediately increase their peeking rates to keep an eye on it . |
| 19 | Untag has 2,800 officials — including 1,100 policemen — scattered throughout Namibia to keep an eye on proceedings at 358 polling booths . |
| 20 | Meredith Jones — who relished his protégé 's roughness — was aware of that and told his friend Philip Burton to keep an eye on him , make sure he did not let slip this second and last chance . |
| 21 | Maybe Carmichael sent some guys to keep an eye on me . |
| 22 | The oldest are working , and their father is always on hand to keep an eye on the others . |
| 23 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |
| 24 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 25 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
| 26 | The ability to keep an eye on oneself-a critical eye , at that — is the taken-for-granted sine qua non of a higher education . |
| 27 | Before you load up your board on the car to go off in search of solitude , remember that it is wisest to sail in a controlled situation with plenty of others to keep an eye on you . |
| 28 | It 's a really good way to keep an eye on other sprinters and suss out the competition . |
| 29 | Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house . |
| 30 | Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your home . |