Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] know only " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 2 | The discovery of a Thomas Barton harpsichords throws fresh light on the scribbled information in the Talbot Manuscript taken from an instrument we know only as ‘ Jenny 's harpsichord ’ The stringing list is almost identical . |
| 3 | As a schoolteacher she knew only too well the dance they led their parents . |
| 4 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 5 | There is an alphabetical table , and also a chronological table in case you know only the date of the statute . |
| 6 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 7 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |
| 8 | Biographical details are not relevant to what the Cloud-author and Walter Hilton have to say , and about Julian we know only those circumstances which immediately impinge on her visionary experience . |
| 9 | Most of the other passengers I knew only vaguely , by face more than by name . |
| 10 | Of her earlier life we know only that she ‘ feared the Lord ’ and ‘ sought ’ him ‘ earnestly ’ . |
| 11 | The man he knew only as Hamid was one of the two-man London cell . |
| 12 | Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well . |
| 13 | As Alexander Augustus he was tempted to go into the village for some refreshment : it looked charmingly picturesque , even under the dull skin of grey ; smoke from chimneys curling , thatch , goats , geese , the homely clutter of rustic glamour : but as John he knew only too well the new picturesque was the comfortable conscience for the old poverty . |