Example sentences of "only see " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 2 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 3 | Besides , wrote Goldberg , you have only to see where Brighton are placed in the League to wonder at the wisdom of associating with them in any capacity . |
| 4 | Tommy Searle and Danny Shea replied for the home team only to see another Cooper , Ian , make it 5-3 . |
| 5 | To see more deeply is only to see what Eliot found in the epigraph from Heart of Darkness which he thought might have been ‘ somewhat elucidative ’ for The Waste Land . |
| 6 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 7 | This time last year the studios proudly produced an expensive list of star-packed sequels only to see their audience disappear to cheap films like Paramount 's ‘ Ghost ’ and Disney 's ‘ Pretty Woman ’ . |
| 8 | Lloyd won the toss and decided to bat , only to see seven wickets crumble for 102 . |
| 9 | Even when she had the picture in front of her , she seemed only to see the flat bloodless paper . |
| 10 | ‘ Only to see Eleanor Thorne . |
| 11 | ‘ She had only to see something once and she remembered it . |
| 12 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 13 | But undeterred , he can still visualise the enormous potential of a bank that even last year managed to make record operating profits of £2 billion , only to see ‘ almost all of it swept away by debt provisions ’ . |
| 14 | But in 1987 , Labour also won the campaign — only to see Mrs Thatcher back in Downing Street with a majority of 101 . |
| 15 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 16 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 17 | When the box arrived , the zoologist took the animal out to examine it , only to see it keel over and lie motionless on her hand . |
| 18 | His heart beating painfully , Jack wheeled round , only to see a man and a woman emerge , looking dishevelled and frightened . |
| 19 | It is good for leaders to be aware of these if only to see that to gather together towards the Lord may take some time . |
| 20 | It is not enough for us only to see the need of the contract ( the essence of level one ) or even the attractiveness and reliability of the terms ( levels two and three ) . |
| 21 | At best we are trapped in a modern version of the ancient myth of Sisyphus : condemned forever to roll the electoral stone to the top of the hill only to see it roll back down again . |
| 22 | These are men and women who have invested years of their lives into various enterprises , only to see their firms hurled on the trash heap by intransigent , arrogant , profit-hungry banks . |
| 23 | Although not a classic , this 90-minute video is worth watching if only to see again the legendary mistakes of Leeds keeper Gary Sprake , or Lee Dixon 's own goal for Arsenal against Coventry — surely the cock-up against which all future cock-ups will be judged . |
| 24 | Then midfielder Gavin Johnson went close with a header before veteran striker Paul Goddard found the net only to see his spectacular volley disallowed for a foul on Ray Houghton . |
| 25 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 26 | Sir , — I suppose , being somewhat cynical , in keeping with , I suspect , many other subscribers to your magazine , one always reviews the report of the Disciplinary Committee ( now , it would appear , known as Professional Conduct Committees ) , if only to see if there is anyone there that one knows ! |
| 27 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 28 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 29 | It is only to see the dentist and escape the heat . |
| 30 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |