have eyes only for
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There, she met and was bowled over by the writer who seemed to have eyes only for her.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2020
Subsidiary characters — an elderly woman on the Métro; a Syrian kebab vendor — add subtle political commentary and local color, but Théo and Hugo have eyes only for each other.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
Siegfried is given a potion which makes him forget Brunnhilde, have eyes only for Gutrune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Check out the box score of a Princeton game: the team gets two-thirds of its baskets off assists, a rarity in this era of run-and-gun shooters who have eyes only for the hoop.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Be assured that I shall have eyes only for what I choose to see."
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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