Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 5 | Funny thing , I felt close to Connie , yet I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 6 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 7 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 10 | She had n't set eyes on him for years , but there was no mistake . |
| 11 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 12 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 13 | Ronni had barely set eyes on Guido for days . |
| 14 | Erika , who had never set eyes on Hetta in her life , stoutly agreed , and even Paul , making a dishevelled appearance , said with his new courtliness that he would like to meet her , causing Frau Nordern to raise a sceptical eyebrow and warn him not to be sarcastic at that time of the morning . |
| 15 | Biddy drove out of town fast , and down narrow lanes into the country of wide marshland and wider skies which Nails knew existed but had never set eyes on before . |
| 16 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 17 | Not for the first time , she wished Great-Aunt Alicia had never set eyes on Matthew Preston . |