Example sentences of "[vb past] only [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 4 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 5 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |