Example sentences of "know only [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 2 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In essence , we know only that there is a regular and predictable series of events , whenever the same conditions hold . |
| 5 | Look , this copy you phoned in ; when you say , 1 know only that I have a deeply satisfying face which shines with a radiance beyond the brightness of this world … ’ — should that be ‘ faith ’ ? |
| 6 | Of her earlier life we know only that she ‘ feared the Lord ’ and ‘ sought ’ him ‘ earnestly ’ . |
| 7 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 8 | Delaney scrambled to his feet , lurching from the effects of shock and concussion , knowing only that he had to be sure ; had to see it dead . |
| 9 | He shook his head , not understanding , knowing only that he had never seen his father sleeping . |
| 10 | But Gabriel trudged on up the ladder , knowing only that he preferred to be with Izzie and her father than alone in the chapel with these stony figures against its walls , all staring with stony eyes , and all too lonely to touch one another . |
| 11 | The Canadian in the next cell knew only that we would be moved into the camp itself when we had been interrogated . |
| 12 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 13 | ‘ My immediate family knew only that I was mad enough to go to savage lands where I would live in the jungle , menaced by lions and snakes , and might be lucky to escape the cooking pot . |
| 14 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 15 | Apart from the undisputed fact that the farm in question was ‘ up ’ , the sergeant knew only that it was near a village called Santa Sofia , above a river and on the way to a church . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |