Example sentences of "[vb mod] only see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass . |
| 2 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " It 's odd how you always have to ask that question , that you 'll only see him through other men 's eyes . |
| 5 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
| 7 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
| 8 | They had to take their places on a enormous swing ; once seated it was lowered from the flies until the audience could only see their legs as they went through their act . |
| 9 | As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’ |
| 10 | He could only see one ear , some damp hair . |
| 11 | Lined up along the south of the field , the crowd could only see her left side . |
| 12 | But she could only see little Gabriels , wearing small red anoraks and sporting hair that stood on end no matter how she tried to brush it down . |
| 13 | Gabriel and I saved you from falling into your own image , if you could only see . |
| 14 | and could only see a turn-up |
| 15 | They could only see an obdurate , ungrateful son , old enough to know better , selfishly concerned with his own desires and no one else 's . |
| 16 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 19 | I know that no harm will come to me — and so would you if you could only see him . |
| 20 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 21 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't say much about 'is looks , 'e 'ad a scarf wrapped around 'is neck an' face ; you could only see 'is hooter an' mince pies . |
| 23 | Erlich could only see the soles . |
| 24 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 25 | He could only see it himself by standing with his back to one mirror and looking in another . |
| 26 | Presently she could see him again ; his head was erect , but his eyes were cast down so that she could only see the dark . |
| 27 | The picture itself was so dark he could only see the image of Emily in the glass , naked and moving wildly , her buttocks pumping urgently against him . |
| 28 | They admitted they understood little about politics , and often they could only see , with a certain amount of reluctance , racial interpretations . |
| 29 | Alice looked all round the table , but she could only see a teapot . |
| 30 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |