Example sentences of "saw only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1978 saw only 81 deaths , the lowest annual total since 1970 . |
| 2 | But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War . |
| 3 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 4 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 5 | Jane saw only one black man , driving a ‘ garbage ’ cart . |
| 6 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 7 | I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days . |
| 8 | Maybe he saw only the person within the flesh , a person who , for all hir faults , he had reluctantly come to be very fond of . |
| 9 | However , by the end of the century it was in no better health than the older , eighteenth-century bodies : the 1902 Parliamentary Breakfast saw only thirteen MPs present . |
| 10 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 11 | The problem was , however , as the Emperor saw only too clearly , that this was a contrived situation , as he bluntly told the Spanish Ambassador : |
| 12 | In the gold I saw only dead artefacts from some magical past . |
| 13 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 14 | He glanced round quickly , saw only three boys and started writing again . |
| 15 | In 520 hours of observation , he saw only two lambs being brought to the nest that might have been killed by eagles . |
| 16 | Richard stepped into the flat silently and saw only that they were in a wide hallway before the door closed behind him . |
| 17 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 18 | And he saw only some of it . |
| 19 | The teacher stands back and observes Christopher ( 4.7 ) as he tries to cut right through a block of wood with a tenon saw only half its width . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He heaved his bulk round , but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street . |
| 22 | She 'd mentioned someone who would help me , but I saw only Shadwell ahead of me . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Do215 saw only extremely limited service with the Luftwaffe as a reconnaissance aircraft , and no Do17 units seem to have served in Sicily or Italy . |
| 25 | The priorities used are RESUS , Major A , Major B , Minor A and Minor B. The ENP saw only Minor category patients . |
| 26 | When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects . |
| 27 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 28 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |
| 29 | Penny saw only about 80 of the 1,400 prisoners held at Omarska . |
| 30 | Editors increasingly saw only the downside of tedious and expensive court actions and official or semi-official government pressure . |