Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 3 | He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're going to regret the day you ever laid eyes on Matthew , ’ Sandra hissed . |
| 5 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 6 | you ever set eyes on me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And that was the first time ye 'd ever set eyes on him ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And let's pray this is the last time I need ever set eyes on you ! ’ |
| 9 | I will dwell in the frigid lands with my bride , and no man shall ever set eyes on us again ! ’ |
| 10 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 13 | Neither , it seems , has the population ever set eyes on an American . |
| 14 | According to them , not a quarter of the people in that house have ever set eyes on Mr. Keller . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think I 've ever set eyes on her , ’ said Jack . |
| 16 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 17 | Few here had ever set eyes on the man they were mourning , but they saw in his act the ultimate sacrifice for their dream of independence . |
| 18 | She 'd distrusted him from afar , for some time , even before leaving London , before ever setting eyes on him . |
| 19 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 20 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 21 | It is very easy to build up quite a dislike of The-Most-Important-Film-Star-Of-The-Nineties before ever clapping eyes on him . |
| 22 | Chris decided he wanted to marry 32-year-old Heather before he even set eyes on her . |
| 23 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 24 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 25 | Ronni had barely set eyes on Guido for days . |
| 26 | He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 29 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 30 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |