Example sentences of "could only see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 4 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 5 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 6 | 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 |