Example sentences of "have see only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 2 | In her palm lies the bright scrap of a highly illegal netfly , something which Reynard has seen only in illustrations before . |
| 3 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 4 | Howard never realized — up to now he has seen only copies of the Night Watch and the Birth of Venus ; indeed of everything , from electron microscopes and openers to the muddle of plasticine , string , and electric flex in the toy drawer at home . |
| 5 | After all , I 'd seen only photographs of his new personality . |
| 6 | A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters . |
| 7 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 8 | At the age of 70 ( in 1890 ) , Engels reflected on the coming break-up of the European empires and the liberation of many of those for whom , in 1848 , he had seen only assimilation : |
| 9 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 10 | I had seen only one other signed by Jean-Claude before . |
| 11 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 12 | Where Amanda discovered in the world divine intent , benevolent order and rigorous justice , her father had seen only chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 13 | Oliver had seen only Stan who , for a small fee , had agreed to ‘ forget ’ that he was spending the night there . |
| 14 | I gathered that her parents had seen only that Laura was losing touch with reality . |
| 15 | Her embarrassment forgotten , Folly craned across him to see the dome which , until now , she had seen only in pictures . |
| 16 | But 1992 had seen only about 165 houses were sold , against 306 in 1991 . |
| 17 | Diplomatic missions and political initiatives do n't mean anything to these young people who have seen only more oppression as Israel speaks of peace . |
| 18 | As we have seen only the papers relevant to the subject of our review , we are not able to judge how the assessment machinery deals with areas of higher priority , but we believe that , in dealing with Argentina and the Falkland Islands , it was too passive in operation to respond quickly and critically to a rapidly changing situation which demanded urgent attention . |
| 19 | The name Champagne comes from the Latin campagna , signifying open , unforested land : an ambiguous origin for those who have seen only the hilly vineyards of Champagne surmounted by forest . |
| 20 | Again we have seen only too clearly in some other countries what can happen if you personify and almost deify the State . |
| 21 | So far I have seen only your bad side . |
| 22 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |