Example sentences of "[pers pn] know only that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 2 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 3 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 4 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 5 | She knew only that suddenly her hand was upraised , that his shot out with lightning speed and caught it in mid-air . |
| 6 | Faith and Reason : We know only that God is a mystery : In the fourth article in our series on the mutability of God , Herbert McCabe OP argues that neither change nor stasis are applicable to God 's ‘ human ’ suffering |
| 7 | In essence , we know only that there is a regular and predictable series of events , whenever the same conditions hold . |
| 8 | We are not told what precisely it was that was agreed at Grandmont ; we know only that Louis did not like it . |
| 9 | Of her earlier life we know only that she ‘ feared the Lord ’ and ‘ sought ’ him ‘ earnestly ’ . |
| 10 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 11 | He was not clear about it , had no notion of his objective or destination ; he knew only that he had once felt filled with high sense of purpose , that aimlessness had not then been his condition , but a starry conviction . |
| 12 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 13 | He had no idea how he was going to fulfil this promise-he knew only that he was determined to teach these greedy people a lesson . |