Sentence examples for had merely seen from inspiring English sources

Would that have happened if he had merely seen "some signs the recession may be coming to an end" and left the "green shoots" well alone?

He admitted he had not seen the police log of the incident when he gave a BBC radio interview on 21 November in which he backed the officers involved and had merely seen a report about what the officers had seen.

He has merely seen the light and changed his mind.

These track, for instance, whether a Web surfer has merely seen -- but not necessarily clicked on -- an online Eddie Bauer ad before visiting the Eddie Bauer Web site and buying a sweater.

I haven't actually seen The Wright Way, Ben Elton's latest sitcom, but I've sensed the waves of negative feedback it's generated, in much the same way Obi Wan Kenobi felt a great disturbance in the Force when the Death Star destroyed the planet Alderaan, except rather than sensing a million voices crying out in terror, I've merely seen it trend on Twitter accompanied by a swarm of Anti-LOLs.

However, some reports suggested they had robbed the station in Villiers-Cotterets, 43 miles from the capital, while others said they had merely been seen there. .

True, the country has been merely seen as a typical Central Asian "transit depot" in foreign policy circles, but its politics and stability have real implications for U.S. foreign policy even beyond our ability to use the Manas Air Base.

In contrast, the total number of new drugs approved has merely doubled (see graph).

Since nothing can reproduce without guanine in its DNA, the researchers had merely to sit back and see if their engineered bugs multiplied in the presence of caffeine.

Wooden Leg had merely described the markings he saw on the body.

Participants had to report the location of the line and then say whether they had seen it or had merely guessed its location.