Example sentences of "only do [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when it appeared the problem had been solved , Morgan alleges he hid outside Docherty 's and overheard him ringing the journalist again to apologise for his outburst claiming it was only done to fool the player . |
| 2 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 3 | They only did like erm a square foot every time . |
| 4 | Not only did profit move well . |
| 5 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 6 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 7 | They tell us that they only do dope occasionally , a factor that potentially puts them at greater risk . |
| 8 | And there is debate and notable disagreement about the consequences that elections not only do have but should have for public policy . |
| 9 | I only do fly fishing ! |
| 10 | Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition . |
| 11 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 12 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 13 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 14 | The effects were felt beyond Inverkeithing , for the manager of the Cunningham interest in the eastern burghs of the district , Captain James Cunningham , was clear that it was essential to have John Main and Colin Sharp back in their places before the election and Haldane 's friends removed , as ‘ it not only does harm in that one town , but in all the rest ; Haldane 's interest is cryed up , & the Haldanes can do every thing is the general talk … ’ |