Sentence examples for kept one eye from inspiring English sources

Seated in the corner of a small restaurant in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Mr. Pourtash kept one eye on the television, checked Facebook updates on his cellphone and tried to call a friend in Tehran.

He kept one eye on questioners, the other on her.

While bombing, the guys kept one eye on the wall and on scanning for possible undercover cops.

Yet everyone I met, from Vlatko to the guys talking real estate at the soccer bar, kept one eye on business and one ear on the cellphone.

Mrs. Lezama-Clark kept one eye on her visitor and the other on the whirl around her. "We have a theme for the parade -- wait," she interrupted herself.

All the girls were daughters of returnees, like Prasad Kamisetty, an Intel employee back after 15 years, whose sonorous singing accompanied the dancers, and Sunita Maheshwari, a pediatric cardiologist, who kept one eye on the dance lessons and one on her 4-year-old son in the pool outside.

Many spectators watch the bouncing ball at soccer matches but keep one eye on suspicious individuals on the sidelines who might be trying to put a hex on the action.

That fact is not lost on Mr. Downing, who keeps one eye on the sales and flow of merchandise, the other, as he put it, "on what it takes to be an ambassador for the organization".

"You have to keep one eye on Carter and the other on the rest of them.

"I'd always keep one eye on the mountain and one eye on the road," she said.

The young men keep one eye on the screen, the other, vigilant, is on their town.