Example sentences of "had [vb pp] eye on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 2 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |