Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] only known " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 2 | ‘ If I had only known — if only Isabelle could have forced herself to tell me . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only known you since first thing this morning and I have n't had time to take everything in . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact , I 've only known it happen once when a new submarine was doing trials . |
| 5 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 6 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 7 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 8 | You might have poked the lendri 's eye out for us , if you 'd only known . " |
| 9 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 10 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 11 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 13 | She had only known one man , a moronic battle in neon light . |
| 14 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 15 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 16 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 17 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 18 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 've only known each other a year . ’ |
| 20 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 21 | ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two . |
| 22 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 23 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |