Example sentences of "[adv] did [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 2 | This caused a bit of a chuckle from and his wife , as they apparently did most of their courting on a similar looking bench . |
| 3 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 4 | And erm I just basically did that . |
| 5 | George said she only did that on the first and last nights of the season , unless there was a particularly successful production , like the time O'Hara had brought the house down in Richard II . |
| 6 | ‘ We only did that once , when I was a kid . |
| 7 | I only did that just to test to see if you were awake . |
| 8 | To win affection , she discovered , you had to project the sort of image the other person wanted , and you only did that if the image appealed to you and if the other person was worth the effort . |
| 9 | He only did that simply because he gets asked questions . |
| 10 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 11 | He did n't only did that cos you lost your temper |
| 12 | In a few short verses not only did that celebrated pair dispose of our continental neighbours , but they also made it clear that the Irish , the Scots and the Welsh were suspect too . |
| 13 | Finally , and of some significance , not only did many of the personnel continue to serve in the state system on a voluntary basis after 1909 , no doubt bringing their ideas with them , but also the casework procedures became the basic methodological practice of the service . |
| 14 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 15 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 16 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 17 | ‘ And we only did each take once . ’ |
| 18 | Not only did this protect them from infection , it served to create a perfumed persona to cheer the sick . |
| 19 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 20 | Not only did this eventually solve the problem but , as Mrs. Dibble said , ‘ Please bear in mind that Lena did n't know me from Adam but she was so helpful and concerned , she took a chance on my honesty . ’ |
| 21 | Not only did this process of consultation demonstrate that the Council was in charge of its own proceedings , but it brought the bishops together and helped them to get to know one another . |
| 22 | Not only did this operation result in vastly increased headroom , but it also , interestingly enough , led to vastly improved communications . |
| 23 | Not only did this new attitude towards children begin to emerge among educationalists in the middle decades of the eighteenth century , but we can deduce also from the success of small private academies , from the development of a new kind of children 's literature , and from the vastly increased expenditure on the amusements and pleasures of children , that parents , too , were no longer regarding their children as sprigs of old Adam whose wills had to be broken . |
| 24 | Not only did this latter-day alliance of king and pope alienate much sympathy , lay and clerical , from the papacy , but it doubtless served also to drive further wedges between the clergy and the laity within England . |
| 25 | I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there . |
| 26 | Not only did this appear to be a slur on the patriotism of seamen ; it also revived memories of the press gang and the imposition of fixed rates of pay without right to complain in any " starvation ship " with a money-worshipping owner . |
| 27 | Not only did this geezer Kev Knowles agree to turn out for us , he also said he would look after the programme as long as he could incorporate a number of religious tracts . |
| 28 | Hence , not only did this decision reduce the value of the company ( i.e. post-dividend compared to pre-dividend ) , but by reducing the capital the company could invest , it reduced the future earnings that could be expected by the shareholders . |
| 29 | Not only did this great book provide the Western Christian world with its " moral " code , it also introduced canonistic scholarship . |
| 30 | Not only did this dilute the power of the incorporated companies , but there was no replacement by an equivalent power , for the larger and more amorphous body of investors was hardly as able to lobby against interest reductions or other schemes to lessen the weight on government . |