Example sentences of "only [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compass arcs were only rarely seen , for example , and it appeared that many of the drawings had been obtained by trial and error . |
| 2 | Although frank aphasic symptoms are only rarely seen after lesions of the right hemisphere , or even after total right hemispherectomy ( Damasio , Almeida and Damasio , 1975 ; Smith , 1974 ) in patients with left hemisphere specialisation for language , careful studies are now pointing to certain linguistic impairments in association with right-sided brain damage . |
| 3 | I only only saw it cos it , it 's |
| 4 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 5 | that 's right , so you 'll probably only just seeing |
| 6 | ‘ I only just saw it . ’ |
| 7 | And he and we did n't really I only just saw him fleetingly . |
| 8 | This is in today 's edition , I 've only just seen it . ’ |
| 9 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |
| 10 | We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent . |
| 11 | Because of the remarkable contours of the ground , a fielder in the deep can only just see the tops of the heads of his teammates . |
| 12 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 13 | It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us . |
| 14 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 15 | Well sort , there sort of like little coves are n't they and they 're you can only just see one van from where they are . |
| 16 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 17 | I have only once seen a serious fight between badgers , and the sounds on that occasion were terrifying . |
| 18 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 19 | It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me . |
| 20 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 21 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 22 | Or would you be one of those people who only ever saw the worst of everything , because they are around are n't they ? |
| 23 | The more time he spent with Jeopardy , the more he realised Jeopardy only ever saw people as extensions of his work . |
| 24 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 25 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 26 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 27 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 28 | I have only ever seen this once . |
| 29 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 30 | A creature only ever seen on the magical Isle of Man , Jimmy Squarefoot has a formidable appearance , with the head and tusks of a large boar , the body of a man , and large square feet swathed in calico bands . |