Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right right did you take her out on the evening ? |
| 2 | These facts escaped the attention of our radical sisters and thereby so did we . |
| 3 | Cos in Tom Sawyer we came on together did n't we ? |
| 4 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 5 | Only rarely did its opponents win a victory like that of George Norris , the progressive Republican Senator who successfully opposed government plans to sell off dams and nitrogen-processing plants at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee Valley . |
| 6 | Only rarely did the artist actually go to where he might see exotic species in the wild — and even if he had gone there always , he would probably have found them very hard to see . |
| 7 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 8 | Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
| 10 | Only slowly did he trace the interference to the calculator , battery powered , made by Casio . |
| 11 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 12 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 13 | Only slowly did he release the strap , as if he was reluctant to do so , and it stretched her nerves unbearably . |
| 14 | Only slowly did her heart-rate come down , and she was able to see that no lasting harm had been done . |
| 15 | still those little chops looked all right did n't they ? |
| 16 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 17 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 18 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 19 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 20 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 21 | The temptation to evade the truth was suddenly almost more than Harry could bear , so achingly did he want to go home . |
| 22 | I saw it and obviously so did Arnold , but nobody else could have . |
| 23 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 24 | So long did I have to wait , however , for that second chub , I decide to dispense with floating crust and have a shot at legered crust again . |
| 25 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 26 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 27 | Those who declared an average farm income of 20% or less obviously did not look on the off-farm job in this way . |
| 28 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 29 | So greatly did Keir take us into her confidence that , by the end of the evening , we felt like old muckers . |
| 30 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |