Example sentences of "set eyes on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Are you hinting you have no wish to set eyes on this place again ? ’
2 Was it only Friday when she 'd first set eyes on those features that appealed to her so strongly ?
3 The moment we set eyes on each other … six years ago . ’
4 What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’
5 It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household .
6 " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . "
7 Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire .
8 ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says .
9 The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship .
10 As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) .
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