set eyes on
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Jeff Siegrist was a student at the University of Tennessee when he first set eyes on her at a Knoxville dealership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Madison and Borisov share a palpable chemistry from the moment they set eyes on each other in “Anora,” though you could hardly call it a “meet cute.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
In a corridor at Ilford police station, detectives arranged it so that Edith and Freddy would set eyes on one other, in the hope she would incriminate herself.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023
By the time Boikiv set eyes on her husband again, Kolia had been dead for a month.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
“I never thought I’d ever set eyes on one of them again. That’s a symbol reader. Did he tell you anything about it, child?’
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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