Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] eyes on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 6 | Funny thing , I felt close to Connie , yet I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 7 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 8 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 've ever set eyes on her , ’ said Jack . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 13 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 14 | Ronni had barely set eyes on Guido for days . |
| 15 | I 've never set eyes on him . |
| 16 | ‘ I hardly feel that I 'm the person to answer that particular question , ’ offered Mr Palmer , ‘ as I 've never set eyes on the lady before yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | And I 've never laid eyes on Vera . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never laid eyes on 'em before , ’ he replied , ‘ but I 'll never ferget the bloke who laid me out . |
| 19 | " I 've never laid eyes on him , " Mrs. Butler said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 23 | Not for the first time , she wished Great-Aunt Alicia had never set eyes on Matthew Preston . |
| 24 | According to them , not a quarter of the people in that house have ever set eyes on Mr. Keller . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ) . |