They're smart and quick, with an eye for the main chance.

She also has an eye for the main chance.

But an eye for the main chance and a shrewd business brain have also pushed him along.

'People who always have an eye for the main chance!

"Always an eye for the main chance, anyway," Rod agreed.

With an eye for the main chance, one even sells stolen envelopes to those heading inside.

He was a different customer altogether: calm, with an eye for the main chance."

The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance, before the opportunity disappeared.

He had an eye for women, I thought, and even more of an eye for the main chance.

Being a smart operator, a whizz at public relations and having an eye for the main chance are all very well.

'I'm just a charming feller with an eye for the main chance.

Even as civilisation crumbled, those with an eye for the main chance accumulated small, useless fortunes.

Armand had his detractors, but not even they denied that he'd had an eye for the main chance.

This self-described activist for a better world was more of a Reagan-era yuppie lawyer with an eye for the main chance.

"Because she's got an eye for the main chance; she's already fluttering her lashes at the steward," said Aurelia.

A little bending to the commercial realities, an eye for the main chance, and he might have thrown off his hair shirt, made real money, joined the club.

'You know, since I've always thought of myself as a dude with an eye for the main chance, you've just managed to depress me.' '

Let the others do the hard work; there was serious money waiting to be made in Mistport, for a man with an eye for the main chance.

Rosetta Stone covered it on the album An Eye For The Main Chance in 1991.

Raymond Starr - Young tennis and dance pro at the Majestic, he was suave, smooth, and personable, with an eye for the main chance.

And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance, he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say 'praise Caesar'.

Two of the assembled musketeers-named Vobolsky and Chironov-with more of an eye for the main chance than most, at once shouted enthusiastically 'Kill the buggers!'

Rosetta Stone perform An Eye For The Main Chance on their Adrenaline Tour at The Boardwalk, Manchester in 1992...

But Graham was a street-smart kid-he grew up around the Krays and their world, and his father was a small-time muscle man-and he had an eye for the main chance.

"There are many benefits an officer with an eye for the main chance might gain; some- thing, I might add, I am as capable of seeing as any officer of that stripe."

'People who always have an eye for the main chance!

She also has an eye for the main chance.

Being a smart operator, a whizz at public relations and having an eye for the main chance are all very well.

Armand had his detractors, but not even they denied that he'd had an eye for the main chance.

But Graham was a street-smart kid-he grew up around the Krays and their world, and his father was a small-time muscle man-and he had an eye for the main chance.

But as the home of some world-class dealmakers, at least (Basses, Hunts, Richard Rainwater, Boone Pickens), Dallas and neighboring Fort Worth always have an eye for the main chance, however risky.

These small companies were often started by music-industry amateurs - small businessmen, nightclub owners and hustlers, some of whom actually had a genuine ear for music, all of whom had an eye for the main chance.

Magruder would have expected Waring--who always had an eye for the main chance--to back off from another round of foreign intervention, if only to appease the growing numbers of isolationists among the President's noisier critics.

There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance, and at no time more so than in 1854, when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house.

He had an eye for the main chance, and informed me that fully one half the cattle making up our herd belonged to Dimmit; that the county line was only a mile up the river, and that if I would allow the herd to drift over into his territory, he would shade the legal rate.