Example sentences of "[adv] to keep an eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Duncan had managed to fire off a report and stop his watch-replacement from stumbling on the terrorists , he had settled down to keep an eye on the gang . |
| 2 | out so to keep an eye on them . |
| 3 | Philip came up to keep an eye on him for a week or so . |
| 4 | I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel . |
| 5 | ‘ As you can see from the state of this place , I have someone call in regularly to keep an eye on it . |
| 6 | ‘ Melody in Fern Cottage with Seb , without me around to keep an eye on the pair of ‘ em ? |
| 7 | Since you seem reluctant to help us in our inquiries it might be as well if I stayed here to keep an eye on you while Constable Aplin rides to Burford to swear out a search warrant . ’ |
| 8 | Ifor came up now and then to keep an eye on him . |
| 9 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 10 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 11 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 12 | Claudio Bartolini will be there to keep an eye on £5.5million Gazza , who is set to make his first competitive outing for more than 15 months . |
| 13 | ‘ Had the centre not been there to keep an eye on me , I would have probably been admitted to hospital the previous week and kept in . ’ |