Example sentences of "set [noun pl] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you hinting you have no wish to set eyes on this place again ? ’ |
| 2 | The examiner is quite entitled to set questions on any topic in the syllabus regardless of whether a lecture on it has been given or not and you should look out for the " old foxes " . |
| 3 | Was it only Friday when she 'd first set eyes on those features that appealed to her so strongly ? |
| 4 | The moment we set eyes on each other … six years ago . ’ |
| 5 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 10 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 11 | have set countries on any sort of breakthrough path . |