Example sentences of "an eye on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep an eye on the youngsters and , with the experience and wisdom of their years , will whistle warnings if they sense danger so that all the babies can bolt down the communal burrow to safety . |
| 2 | Please keep an eye on the signs . |
| 3 | The oldest are working , and their father is always on hand to keep an eye on the others . |
| 4 | Then I can keep an eye on the eggs . ’ |
| 5 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tiguary and his people kept an eye on the Englishmen 's building work ; they watched their planting and their forest clearance with mounting apprehension . |
| 8 | In the next act we see a mountain village , where a feckless Kuomintang soldier is slouching around keeping an eye on the villagers . |
| 9 | The British keeping an eye on the Yanks was the idea . |
| 10 | Our neighbours volunteered to keep an eye on the kids who were too absorbed in catching a tan and the biggest fish in the harbour , to come with us . |
| 11 | There 's always someone to keep an eye on the kids , and it does n't seem to bother them having children round and up till all hours . |
| 12 | Watching and waiting — the police keeping an eye on the hippies . |
| 13 | In two cases , because they were part-time farms and there was no one to keep an eye on the cows and calves , these had to be sold and replaced with store stock . |
| 14 | The female cuckoo is thus very restricted as to where she can lay her eggs , and it is important that she keeps an eye on the whereabouts of potential hosts . |
| 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 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |