Example sentences of "keep an eye on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Perkins was torn between keeping an eye on the scene of the crime — and perhaps making a brilliant arrest — or calling up reinforcements . |
| 2 | The company added that a standby boat was keeping an eye on the situation . |
| 3 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 4 | Mrs Oliver is walking the dog , Alfred has washed and tidied away the tea things while keeping an eye on the shop from the adjoining neat and spotlessly clean flat . |
| 5 | Since last October , inventors have had to pay renewal fees to keep US patents in force , so any firm interested in copying the gull-wing design will be keeping an eye on the status of the DeLorean patent . |
| 6 | There is still likely to be a considerable extra work load for the daughter or daughter-in-law who is likely to bear the brunt of extra shopping , washing and keeping an eye on the elderly people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first . |
| 9 | Jonadab questioned the waggoner 's lad , who had been given the job of keeping an eye on the horse . |
| 10 | She found Ernest and Charlotte on their knees with the rest , with Enoch , as far as a three-year-old could , keeping an eye on the baby nearby . |
| 11 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 12 | Helen will also be keeping an eye on the job market while she is away and praying that employers will see her experience in a positive light . |
| 13 | Keeping an eye on the child 's play while talking to parents can provide a lot of basic information about the child 's developmental level ( Lowe 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Their role included keeping an eye on the conduct of their fellows . |
| 15 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 16 | Much of the owner-occupation sector represents a recent addition to national wealth ; from 26.6 per cent in 1957 to 36.5 per cent of all wealth by 1985 — a 37 per cent increase in thirty years ( Sam Brittan , ‘ Keeping an eye on the national wealth ’ , Financial Times , 16 July 1987 ) , and this wealth has been much more equitably spread than has industrial wealth . |
| 17 | The British keeping an eye on the Yanks was the idea . |
| 18 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 19 | Still keeping an eye on the two men , he glanced down at the girl . |
| 20 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was overseen by , the company 's operations director , who had been keeping an eye on the Basingstoke premises during its six-month run-down . |
| 23 | Who are , as you probably all know , erm , in London , or on their way to London , lobbying , I hope successfully , but I fear probably not , said he , keeping an eye on the tape recorder trying to get more money out of the government in regard to our backing in this , and we wish you well . |
| 24 | So as the unofficial electioneering gathers pace , Mr Kinnock is keeping an eye on the date . |
| 25 | Watching and waiting — the police keeping an eye on the hippies . |
| 26 | Keeping an eye on the weather … adventurer Rosemary Upton Life can be just plain sailing … ( with a bit of help , of course ) WHEN you get into your seventies for some For Rosemary Upton , who is just into her seventies , life could n't be more hectic or more adventurous ! |
| 27 | Tracy was keeping an eye on the time all the time , they did n't rehearse it , none at all . |
| 28 | He grasped the coroner 's arm and swung him round , keeping an eye on the hospitaller now standing behind them . |
| 29 | In the next act we see a mountain village , where a feckless Kuomintang soldier is slouching around keeping an eye on the villagers . |
| 30 | and er I suspect most people would be only keeping an eye on the foreign exchange page , you know , when they were thinking about buying |