Example sentences of "[noun sg] keep [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Response controller keeps an eye on its peripherals by constantly ‘ polling ’ them in sequence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He could do worse than spend his evening keeping an eye on her . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Of course Madame keeping an eye on O was nothing new . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The garrison kept an eye on the Collector 's bedroom , expecting to see his face appear for an inspection of Harry 's work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the same time the SMS Manager checks that the various storage groups and classes have been set up properly , while the Hierarchical Storage Manager keeps an eye on the way in which data is migrated across media types , avoiding the thrashing that can occur when , for example an application accesses some data every four days and the system is set up to dump unused data to tape storage after three . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | George Kwasniewski ACIB , Education Officer for Croydon , described how his centre kept an eye on quality in the colleges . |
| 22 | It suited me , because the yard kept an eye on Joanna , and I could leave my car there . |
| 23 | The oldest are working , and their father is always on hand to keep an eye on the others . |
| 24 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Does a neighbour keep an eye on your house while you are away ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's a really good way to keep an eye on other sprinters and suss out the competition . |
| 30 | Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house . |