Example sentences of "only [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 32 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 33 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 34 | Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings . |
| 35 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 36 | These are Houseparties that move by motor from one idyllic anchorage to another , often visiting places only ever seen by yachtsmen . |
| 37 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 39 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 40 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 41 | I 've only ever seen one and the one that , the recent one is called just Cher and that 's got all the last , the last few top ten hits on it . |
| 42 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 43 | I I 've only ever seen the first film of it . |
| 44 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 45 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 46 | On the other hand , this point of view has to be balanced against those who protest that they only ever see politicians at election time and that if they do n't even call then they are undeserving of a vote . |
| 47 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |
| 48 | I only ever see highlights of the odd games on Tv in scotland but from that i 've always been impressed with him . |
| 49 | Perhaps we can only ever see this when we have been ‘ broken ’ by God , perhaps through failures or disasters that he has allowed us to experience . |
| 50 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 51 | I mean , everybody who goes to the RSC by and large only ever sees the piece once , do n't they ? |
| 52 | These exercises will firm up these vulnerable areas and if this routine is done daily then you will not only quickly see a noticeable difference , but feel the strength and power in your arms as you go about your everyday business . |
| 53 | Distally the dorsal arm plates are well developed , rectangular and contiguous with two successive plates to each segment ; at the base of the arms thee is an irregular arrangement of many small plates merging into the disk , usually only distinctly seen in dried specimens . |
| 54 | Eden is always somewhere else , or someone else 's — or else it is snatched away after only a moment , at most , or only distantly seen , felt or known . |
| 55 | For pluralists , power is only really seen as existing in action , participation , and decision-making within the public arena of politics and government . |
| 56 | By the age of five I was given glasses which had no effect , serving only to restrict my field of vision , since I could only really see to read with one eye . |
| 57 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 58 | Living first in Switzerland and now in Spain , she only really sees Britain when she is here to work . |
| 59 | By the time of Pope Gregory I the world of cultivated Roman paganism had receded into a past now only dimly seen through the distorting medium of legend and folklore . |
| 60 | From anger and animosity he turned in a split second to a benevolent caring brother only here to see justice done . |