set eyes on
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That changed the moment he set eyes on Kyle Field, Texas A&M’s 103,000-seat cathedral of college football.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
When you first set eyes on the depths of social collapse and public distress, it’s shocking.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 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
Funny, it was, thought Fred, that he'd never yet set eyes on Owen—or his Missus either.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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