Example sentences of "[conj] see only " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye . |
| 2 | SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder . |
| 3 | She stood frozen , still clutching the black dress against herself , looking at her husband and seeing only her world crumbling around her . |
| 4 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 5 | Playing his new-found tune , he wrote , ‘ I had now travelled two hundred miles in Scotland and seen only one tree not younger than myself . ’ |
| 6 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 7 | Every trip to the door was an expedition and it was acutely exasperating to arrive there and see only a little figure in the distance dancing about and grimacing at me . |
| 8 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 9 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 10 | Richard stepped into the flat silently and saw only that they were in a wide hallway before the door closed behind him . |
| 11 | Silently , Nell regarded the white , steel tube with a sphere at one end and set with two ‘ V ’ observation ports surrounded by remote control grab arms , and saw only an insect-like thing , a huge preying mantis . |
| 12 | Without speaking they walked through the gap of the east window and on to the edge of the cliff and saw only the moon-bleached beach stretching north and south , the thin fringe of white foam . |
| 13 | Lili said that of course I must , but I made the error of looking at my mother for approval , found none and saw only displeasure at my childish crudity . |
| 14 | Edwin Frere looked into Agnew 's old face and saw only hopeless consternation there , as though he too were overwhelmed with feelings so vast and flood-like that no word might answer them . |
| 15 | I looked up and saw only an outline where he was sitting . |
| 16 | You lean forward to see more clearly and see only your own reflection . |
| 17 | She peers into it , but sees only herself , looking shell-shocked , and the room behind her , resembling a Wild West saloon just after Jack Palance has thrown Elisha Cook Jr through the plate-glass window . |
| 18 | He heaved his bulk round , but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street . |
| 19 | She checked , but saw only a few photographs of a passing-out parade , a map , some pens and a blotter . |
| 20 | Joseph peered in the directions indicated by the mandarin but saw only the scented shrubs and trees of the formal gardens . |
| 21 | He glanced to see how Maxim had taken the word ‘ killer ’ but saw only the usual polite smile . |
| 22 | To her annoyance she found herself glancing over in the direction of his table , but saw only an empty chair . |
| 23 | They noted too that Scotland contributed fully to the costs of all network programmes while seeing only 94 per cent of them , and paid a full share for network radio despite patchy reception in some areas . |