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Example sentences for "you only knew how"

  • If you only knew how I cried when I kissed them all on coming away.

  • Oh, if you only knew how much I love you all!

  • If you only knew how I love to go out into a snowstorm like this!

  • If you only knew how I have been trying to see you," he said.

  • Oh, Harry," she burst out, "if you only knew how much I wanted to!

  • If you only knew how terrible it is to see you sit there and say that, and not be able to say yes!

  • If you only knew how I've tried already, how I've humiliated myself!

  • If you only knew how full my soul was of night and rebellion since I realised that I had been a mere plaything in the hands of those powerful cardinals.

  • Oh, Marie, if you only knew; if you only knew how wretched I am!

  • And if you only knew how grateful I am to you, what sincere affection and reverence I feel for you!

  • And addressing herself to Madame de Jonquiere, she added: "If you only knew how long we find the time in our fine first-class carriage.

  • If you only knew how revolting it all was!

  • If you only knew how I, well, how I loved you!

  • Oh, if you only knew how I admire and esteem you!

  • And yet if you only knew how fond I am of my home.

  • He paused, and then continued: "And if you only knew how peculiar it is that you should ask me that to-day, on Twelfth Night!

  • And if you only knew how, in spite of this, misery tortures me, ravages me!

  • But if you only knew how wretched it is, every day the same thing, every day in the month and every month in the year.

  • If you only knew how weak we are, how quickly we yield, and fall.

  • My dear, if you only knew how funny it is--the way the two kinds of men act!

  • If you only knew how weak we are, how quickly we yield, we fall.

  • If you only knew how heartily I despise myself for loving you!

  • If you only knew how long I've wanted to do that," he murmured.

  • If you only knew how useful a hundred pounds would be to me.

  • Ah, Alyosha, if you only knew how light my heart is now!

  • My dear, if you only knew how I hate Russia.

  • My dear, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch, if you only knew how worried I am about her!

  • If you only knew how I want to fly into his arms and forget the wretched past!

  • Oh, Pen, if you only knew how much I adore you!

  • Oh, if you only knew how much I love you, you wouldn’t be so heartless.

  • If you only knew how my conscience has pricked me!

  • If you only knew how difficult, yet at the same time how pleasant it is to talk to you about all this!

  • If you only knew how difficult it is to understand it all!

  • Oh, if you only knew how I have struggled against this weakness, how hard I have contended with my strange temperament in this respect!

  • If you only knew how I long to plant things and see them grow.

  • If you only knew how I want a farm with pigs and chickens and cows and horses.

  • If you only knew how I suffered from not knowing where all of me is.

  • But oh, if you only knew how tired I am of--of everything that my life has held hitherto.

  • If you only knew how much I want to be alone!

  • If you only knew how I longed to take you in my arms, and keep you there.

  • If you only knew how I long for you, and desire you!


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you only knew how" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain amount; first rate; lying between; you and; you expect; you forget; you ought; you put; you remember; you see; you should; you want; young again; young gentlewoman; young horse; young orchard; young warrior; youngest brother; your grandfather; your hearts; your home; your old; your place; your right; your uncle; your word