Example sentences of "set eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 4 | ‘ Down here we have n't set eyes on a banana for years ! |
| 5 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Neither , it seems , has the population ever set eyes on an American . |
| 10 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 11 | Now I comes to think on it , I 've not set eyes on Black Will since afore we went to the Garden Tower last evening . ’ |
| 12 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 13 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 14 | I 've not set eyes on her since I got back . ’ |
| 15 | THE first Essex Senior Cup final , in 1884 , saw Colchester beat Braintree 3–1 but the garrison town has never set eyes on Signor Fattorini 's masterpiece since . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | According to them , not a quarter of the people in that house have ever set eyes on Mr. Keller . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 22 | From one she extracted the brown exercise book , more creased and folded than when she had first set eyes on it a quarter of an hour or so before . |
| 23 | I do n't think I 've ever set eyes on her , ’ said Jack . |
| 24 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've never set eyes on him . |
| 27 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 28 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 29 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 30 | Not for the first time , she wished Great-Aunt Alicia had never set eyes on Matthew Preston . |