Example sentences of "[pers pn] know [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know of only one or two couples who have managed to stay together when one partner has been unfaithful and I wish I could pluck up the courage to ask them how they 've done it . |
| 2 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 3 | I know of only one serious reason for suspecting interpolations in the present text of II Maccabees . |
| 4 | I knew of only one other certainty and he had no knowledge of his disease . |
| 5 | The hair at his groin was blue-black , and there the serpent lay , which she knew of only from literature , a rape , and the daft little things of little boys in childhood . |
| 6 | Devereux is open on this question , though he admits that we know of only some of the ‘ invisible and subtler forces that course through creation ’ and even those we are beginning to discover can occur in contexts with which we are unfamiliar . |
| 7 | We know of only three companies that make these : Gaggenau ( model KM132 514 , £473.60 ) ; Neff ( model 9114 , £258.50 ) and Wisehart ( model BT70 , £156 , or the larger 16.4/2 model , which has four gas burners and two electric rings , £250 ) . |
| 8 | As regards colour pictures of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , we know of only one genuine colour photograph , of which we have a copy . |
| 9 | We are ill-equipped to comprehend the very small and the very large ; things whose duration is measured in picoseconds or gigayears ; particles that do n't have position ; forces and fields that we can not see or touch , which we know of only because they affect things that we can see or touch . |
| 10 | At best , he knew of only one moderate who was waiting to meet some senior American somewhere in the ‘ foggy ’ councils of Tehran . |
| 11 | He said he knew of only one major house-building scheme at present in the area for between 40 and 50 private houses in Brotton and he felt that they would probably be executive-type houses beyond the means of the homeless people on the council 's waiting list . |