The phrase "but only found" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: I searched high and low for my lost necklace, but only found it tangled in my scarf.
Khairallah rushed to the spot but only found a few seeds.
Compare this to Picasso's famous boast that he never sought but only found.
This truly is the age of multidimensional cricketers, which Duncan Fletcher always sought as England coach but only found sporadically.
She went to the free-throw line 16 times but only found the bottom of the net seven.
We headed up the east coast but only found more places designed for people who like reading books in peace.
He hooked the ball away from one oncoming QPR striker but only found a second, Michael Robinson, who launched a shot from the halfway line.
She said she had been carrying it for more than three decades, but only found out two years ago after a blood test.
Early Tuesday, Ms Kochakji was informed via text to stay home, but only found out about the bomb threat after turning on the news.
So I went searching for miracles at the Dairy Queen on Friday night, but only found a teenage couple who seemed to have been deported from a Norman Rockwell painting and dropped into my dystopian July.
She got her degree at the University of Westminster and began working in television, but only found her way into the media after trying to get jobs in the Labour party, trade unions, think tanks.
