Example sentences of "[modal v] only see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents , who as children may have been afraid of school or bored by it , may only see education as relevant if their children are finding education unthreatening . |
| 2 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 3 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 4 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 5 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 6 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 7 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 8 | The French , on the other hand , would only see developments which took account of the most recent feudal settlement of 1327 . |
| 9 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |
| 10 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |
| 11 | ‘ I can only see things getting worse . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse . |
| 13 | This night prowler has a low density of cones in its retina and so can only see colour in objects which fill a large part of its field of view . |
| 14 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |