Example sentences of "[verb] set eye [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . "
2 And she could n't wait to see his face when Maria denied ever having set eyes on her before .
3 Should she intervene , should she break them up , or should she ignore her uninvited guest , pretend , professionally , never to have set eyes on her before ?
4 There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him .
5 Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time .
6 Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened .
7 Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him .
8 It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding .
9 ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says .
10 I am simply glad that in the modest glades of Barnes Common I can enjoy my peacocks , purple hairstreaks and red admirals , and never have to worry about whether or not I have set eyes on a yellow-legged tortoiseshell or a Higgins 's anomalous blue .
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