Example sentences of "and see only " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood frozen , still clutching the black dress against herself , looking at her husband and seeing only her world crumbling around her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 7 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 8 | Richard stepped into the flat silently and saw only that they were in a wide hallway before the door closed behind him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I looked up and saw only an outline where he was sitting . |
| 14 | You lean forward to see more clearly and see only your own reflection . |