I would beg my way on foot if I only knew that at the last your heart and your door would be open to me, and as I fell at your feet, knew that I was saved.
He only knew that he loved her and that she would do, without flinching, the thing that she felt was right.
We only knew of three people who were in a position to have done this.
Ah, if we only knew that we should be in a fair way to solving this mystery.
By withholding valuable information you may force me to put a young lady through a very trying and public ordeal, which I am sure might be easily spared her, if I only knew a few more facts of the case.
His real name had been mentioned before the commissionaire, and the widow Masson, who owned the cellar, only knew him as Ducoudray.
Murder was a common word in those days, but I had not at that time grasped its meaning; I had seen no murder done, nor any person killed in a fight; I only knew that it must be something wicked and horrible.
At that time I only knew that he was our nearest English neighbour, and more to us on that account than any other.
I only knew him as an actor at the Lyceum," he said, "and had never met him.
I only knew that I could see the thing playing itself, as I walked about the room (for this time I was the person who was too excited to sit still), and that was enough to make one sanguine.
It was some few years after our intimacy had ceased, and when I only knew that he had degenerated into a Fleet Street loafer of the most dilapidated type, that I caught sight of him one day outside a theatre.
He only knew that he was losing appetite for the magic food on which he had been waxing lately: it was no longer possible to devour poetry and wisdom in the way he had done.
But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew.
And it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew.
P: He will say: Ye tarried but a little if ye only knew.
Y: Nor sell the covenant of Allah for a miserable price: for with Allah is (a prize) far better for you, if ye only knew.
Kitty, with tears in her kind eyes, "if I only knew what to do to make you better!
I only knew 'twas fair and sweet, 'Twas wandering on enchanted ground, With dizzy brow and tottering feet.
He only knew it was not "the jolliest term of the three" for him, but quite the unluckiest so far, despite the fact that he was free at last from the clutches of Mr. Haigh.
He only knew that he had been happier in a saddle-room that still smelt of varnish than he was ever likely to be under mellow tiles and mediaeval trees.
He did not know why he had fainted for the first time in his life that morning; he only knew that it was not his heart, that he had never felt better than after yesterday's match.
I only knew of the Punic wars and the Peloponnesian war--for we never got as far as modern history--and thought of these things as of what had once been.
If I only knew how I could turn my talents to use in the New World, I would ask for my discharge and emigrate to America.
When I appeared, the magistrate addressed me in German, to which I turned a deaf ear, for I only knewenough of that language to ask for necessaries.
By sending her away, your majesty obliged me to turn fiction into fact, for I only knew her by speaking to her in various public places, and I had never made her the smallest present.
I only knew that I had everything to fear, and this knowledge made me brace up my mind so that I should be able to meet calmly all possible misfortunes.
As I have already stated, I only knew three or four words of Arabic, and with such a poor vocabulary it was difficult to talk with my hosts.
I only knew so much of music as a natural taste had taught me, and my knowledge of harmony was hence a very feeble resource.
With a smile she said to herself: "If he only knew that I would prefer the coarsest, scantiest fare provided by him to the most costly banquet, he would not have gone away with that long face.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only knew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
