Example sentences of "[noun] keep an eye on " in BNC.

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1 I went to school leaving Mum keeping an eye on them .
2 December 's page from the RAF Museum 's find 1992 calendar — a Hurricane of 615 Squadron keeping an eye on two Stirlings of 15 Squadron , from the canvas of John Young .
3 A good general practitioner keeps an eye on the health of his elderly patients , knows the score , and can conduct the whole orchestra of welfare on their behalf when they need it .
4 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 .
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 Whilst reading the following paragraphs keep an eye on checklist 2 , and also consider the program personality headings together with program style suggestions , as decisions about these will influence the presentation of the content of the lesson and affect the environment finally created in the classroom .
7 Opana kept an eye on the returning aircraft in spite of the devious routes they flew back to the carriers .
8 Rosa gently teased Erika about the vestigial romance but was serious about the advice she gave , that Erika was not , repeat not , to get involved with a boy-friend , especially with the Indoor Championships drawing nearer , and with the Ministry of Sport keeping an eye on her .
9 The Response controller keeps an eye on its peripherals by constantly ‘ polling ’ them in sequence .
10 These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’
11 I 've asked Lissa to keep an eye on the computer .
12 He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English King ; he too had his spy at Godstowe to keep an eye on Corbett .
13 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 .
14 Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on .
15 Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets .
16 He could do worse than spend his evening keeping an eye on her .
17 The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on .
18 The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on .
19 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 ’ .
20 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 . ’
21 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 .
22 Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway .
23 He despatched various officers to villages north of the Thames , and local PCs kept an eye on the sparse river crossings in case James should double back into Berkshire .
24 Oh Mr kept an eye on us .
25 He watched the screen , struggled to get the frame-hold to work , all the while keeping an eye on the scene in the operating theatre .
26 Of course Madame keeping an eye on O was nothing new .
27 Lucy Lane was assigned to the bookshop ; among other things to keep an eye on the opening of the safe .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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