We finally 'came in/within sight of' the mountains. [=we finally came to a place where we could see the mountains]
I've seen what he looks like when he gets out of bed in the morning, and believe me, it's 'not a pretty sight'.
She left her purse out 'in plain sight'. = Her purse was 'in plain sight of' anyone passing by.
(..) hours could turn into years down there... ...that we could get trapped so deep... ...that when we wound up on the shore of our own subconscious... ...we lost sight of what was real. We created. We built the world for ourselves. We did that for years. We built our own world. (..)2010 Inception