Example sentences of "know only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An often-used phrase in spreadsheet circles is ‘ What if ? ’ and , if you 've ever wondered what would happen to your profits on a certain operation if your costs went up by 5% , you should know only too well the problems in working it out by hand . |
| 2 | ‘ But Harry may know only too well that through him the secret of this grave 's no secret . |
| 3 | As senior officer on duty I came to know only too well the loneliness of old age . |
| 4 | SAFETY Regardless of the physical and emotional dangers of casual sexual relationships , you should be aware of your personal safety with someone you know only slightly . |
| 5 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 6 | You know only right in the middle and we used to jump off the Suspension Bridge regular , some used to dive , but I never did dive there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From the vantage point of so-called post-liberation , we know only too well the political blindnesses of sexual desire , and how disastrous it can be to make sexuality the prime mover of a political vision . |
| 9 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 10 | As the currency markets know only too well , a potentially damaging row over interest-rate policy has broken out . |
| 11 | I know only too well how desperately anxious you must be . |
| 12 | He was making for the door when he stopped and half turned back towards her and said , ‘ By the way , Aggie , very little escapes you , as I know only too well , but have you noticed any difference in Jessie of late ? ’ |
| 13 | Anxiety affects communicating as people going for an interview know only too well ; interviewees may come away feeling annoyed that their ability to respond fluently has been impaired and they have not done themselves justice . |
| 14 | Followers of Scottish football know only too well that a lapse in form and a broken leg are often the precursor of disasters to come . |
| 15 | Physicists know only too well from studying crystalline materials that an understanding of solid-state physics is borne out of a sure knowledge of atomic structure and this has come traditionally from X-ray crystallography . |
| 16 | As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion . |
| 17 | We all know only too well how disheartening it can be to try hard but achieve nothing . |
| 18 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 19 | The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup . |
| 20 | Poverty was not only rampant in the country villages , though , as we know only too well . |
| 21 | The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by . |
| 22 | You will find , young lady , that nobody will employ you without what you evidently know only too well how to give . |
| 23 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 24 | And of course , as we know only too well , it could be the result of a particular action on the part of the pilot . |
| 25 | However , in response to user demands for openness , Wendler argues , vendors will — as we know only too well — increasingly promote everything they can as ‘ standard . ’ |
| 26 | I myself know only too well what it 's like to have a car stolen , so as a car is one of our most valuable possessions , it pays to take care of it at all times . |
| 27 | ‘ I know only too well . |
| 28 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 29 | But I know only too well that you do not love me , that you are marrying me for Papa 's dollars , and that I can not bear . |
| 30 | We know only too well of the crime wave in this country . |