Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker . |
2 | How long did it take one man . |
3 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
4 | While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources . |
5 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
6 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
7 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
8 | Why did it happen this way ? |
9 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
10 | Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort . |