has been eying

• present perfect progressive

  present perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.

  of eye (3rd person singular).
  eye

  noun

  the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.

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has been eying

Speaker Mike Johnson has been eying a vote to add weight to the inquiry, which was launched in September by his predecessor without a vote.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

For the past five months London has been eying Paris with especial nervousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Susie has been eying me all afternoon, with a pucker of perplexity about her lapis-lazuli eyes.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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