Example sentences of "i only knew [pron] " in BNC.

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1 O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married .
2 For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be .
3 I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 .
4 I only knew myself yesterday .
5 I only knew I was playing when we had our warm-up just before the kick-off , and I simply was n't prepared for starting the match .
6 My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated .
7 I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry .
8 I only knew you as you left —
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