Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 2 | Only once we were inside did we appreciate the immense scale of Wolio . |
| 3 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 4 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 5 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 6 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 7 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 8 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 9 | So do we speak the same language ? |
| 10 | So do you want the green man Phil ? |
| 11 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 12 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 13 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 14 | Erm , and not only do they have the red flag , there is the , erm , the Internationale for the the Communist Movement as well , and that apparently erm , was written by French workers in the nineteenth century , and it was used in Russia until nineteen forty-four . |
| 15 | Not only do they share the official theory of schooling but they hold ideas about discipline and order that are markedly more ‘ traditional ’ than those they believe the staff hold . |
| 16 | So did you say the yellow leaves on this umbrella tree are due |
| 17 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 18 | Not only does it command the following of only one god , but it also makes it clear that only one god exists . |
| 19 | Not only does it neutralize the free lime , but also seals the pool by internal glazing . |
| 20 | Not only does it invert the natural sequence of events in a given life by interpreting origins and development in the light of conclusions ( teleological falsification ) ; it also selects particular ideas , events and utterances for interpretation within the framework of a preferred intellectual system ( ideological falsification ) . |
| 21 | The reassuring cloud of honeysuckle around my front door , as I approach it , suddenly makes me stroke the reassuring beard around my mouth . |
| 22 | On the whole Leeds have a lot of positive points at the moment but the deficiences of the squad I think will not see us challenge the top two places this year — I hope I 'm wrong but unless serious money is spent strengthening the side the likes of Man Utd and Liverpool will defeat us . |
| 23 | And if the gentleman having to put bandages on a lady and you want to put your hand underneath there just excuse me a moment , alright , because in the exam one row of you will certainly going to have a lady bandage okay , put slings on and to bandage so it 's just as well not to get to you know used to bandaging up great big chaps and then you 'll find you 've got some little tiny five foot two or five foot nothing lady bandaging in exam , alright , so swap around , so get yourselves so you 've got a partner and use your bandages and let's just see you do the high sling to start . |
| 24 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 25 | His sources do not help him grasp the inconvenient fact that many young men actually enjoy warfare . |
| 26 | And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of moving on to help them make the most of the housing stock by giving early notice when they intend to leave . |
| 27 | Being a very friendly fellow he once let me punch the red button that started the press . |
| 28 | If she loved the sad victim of despair and betrayal , even more did she love the brave idealist . |
| 29 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 30 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |