Example sentences of "not [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many but not all did . |
| 2 | Not all did as well as Nancy , both for themselves and for the rest of us . |
| 3 | Until a few years ago , the opportunity to purchase AVCs was only available to members of occupational schemes that offered AVC facilities , which not all did . |
| 4 | Not all did . |
| 5 | Schools in the sample were asked to provide pupils with scissors for this test , but it was clear that not all did so for in some classes no one used scissors . |
| 6 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 12 | Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations . |
| 13 | Not only did Andrew meet Pete at the Guide Dog Centre , he also met his wife-to-be . |
| 14 | Not only did he catch a crestfallen Kelly , who had started a minute ahead of him , but he socked the hopes of Frenchman Charly Mottet and the Swiss powerhouse Thomas Wegmuller . |
| 15 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 16 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 17 | But so extreme was the sodomite 's construction that most of those actually engaging in ‘ homo/sexuality , did not identify themselves with it ; not only did they not have our modern categories , but the prevailing categories were so tar removed from how they saw themselves , that apparently the connection was not made . |
| 18 | Not only did prostitutes frequent the theatre , but the street transvestite was sometimes associated with prostitution and possibly sodomy : Henriques notes a regulation dating from 1480 forbidding prostitutes to dress as men in public , and remarks : ‘ This masquerading presumably would have meant an added inducement to sodomy ’ ( Prostitution and Society , ii . |
| 19 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 20 | Not only did Marx and Engels require tools for seeing society in a new way , they also needed to understand under what circumstances this newly defined system produced the institutions which other social scientists had studied . |
| 21 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 22 | What was more , not only did I have breakfast with I the family ( I live in the Smiths ' Quarter in Chelsea Barracks ) — toast , bacon and sausages , washed down with milk — but we had no muster parade that morning , and no Adjutant 's Orders to attend . |
| 23 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |
| 24 | Not only did they wreck the London skyline in general . |
| 25 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
| 26 | The next paragraph says that not only did Lord Young cut the published penalty clause for BAe from £650 million to £400 million as disclosed in the National Audit Office memorandum , but offered ‘ a private side-letter ’ waiving the penalty ‘ the text of which would be agreed with BAe in advance ’ . |
| 27 | Not only did they monitor landings at the wharf , they also sifted through refuse dumps to find the remains of butchered dolphins , to estimate catches in previous seasons . |
| 28 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 29 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 30 | 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 . |