Example sentences of "[adv] did [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 2 | Their presence and interest alone did a lot for the morale of the schools involved . |
| 3 | The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign . |
| 4 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not only did no one come to her aid or telephone the police , but residents actually closed their windows so that they would n't be disturbed . |
| 7 | It was mainly equipment setting up , and then when we did rehearse we only did a couple of songs a day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They put the sniffer over it but only did a perfunctory search . |
| 9 | Not only did the church 's social teaching directly enter into the definition of rights , wrongs , and obligations within this nation state , but it was also to affect one aspect of the structure of government . |
| 10 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 11 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 12 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 13 | Michael too was good at school but only did the minimum of study . |
| 14 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 15 | But when he kept salmon in water with lethal levels of aluminium and much higher silicon concentrations , not only did the fish survive , they absorbed less aluminium than other fish kept in normal water . |
| 16 | Not only did the schoolmaster make him move , but he instructed him to transfer all his personal effects from the luggage rack above the seat to the rack on the other side , which takes a particular kind of pettiness , do n't you think . |
| 17 | Not only did the cost of supporting themselves during their training and pupillage deter would-be barristers from poorer back-grounds , but the anachronistic requirement that they then find a place in ‘ chambers ’ from which existing advocates were working inevitably favoured those with the right contacts or family connections . |
| 18 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 19 | He argued that not only did the technology bring safer products , but it could cut the number of chemical steps in production , and simplify the manufacturing process , lead to more effective use of chemical plant and improve return on capital investment . |
| 20 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
| 21 | Not only did the WEA have providing rights and responsibilities in negotiations with the Board of Education and LEAs but it enhanced its position and status in seeking funds from philanthropic bodies to support pioneering , experimental schemes for the provision of adult education , particularly in rural areas . |
| 22 | Not only did the County Council begin to prepare a major case against Hinkley C , but every detail , from the new roads to the siting of a proposed workers ' hostel , was back in the melting pot . |
| 23 | Not only did the other men not speak ; they did not move . |
| 24 | Not only did the street fill with sirens and blue lights like an episode of Kojak , the cops that piled up the stairs were too fat to get through the attic space and pursue the men . |
| 25 | This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car , but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne . |
| 26 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 27 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 28 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 29 | Not only did the street door open on to a wide passage , but there were three large rooms downstairs , plus a scullery , the front room having a bay window . |
| 30 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |