Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] do [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 2 | Only rarely do they arise with braided line , or in the sophisticated Kevlar or Spectra twist . |
| 3 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 4 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 5 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 6 | Only once did she think of Johnny , when , as the morning wore away , one of the mothers , who was sitting reading while father jumped the waves with the children at the water 's edge , closed her book , and spreading a cloth on the sand , began to set out the picnic . |
| 7 | In my view this restaurant 's three year old is a model of good behaviour : his tantrums are rare and only once did he complain about a lack of attention by peeing on the floor right between my feet and his mother 's . |
| 8 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 9 | Only later did she decide on her expertise — ‘ ethnological bush-work ’ . |
| 10 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 11 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 12 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 13 | Not only then do they come from a professional sub-culture which permits and often encourages a range of physical contact ( quite apart from the obvious sporting activity , PE departments in schools often administer their own disciplinary code ) but they also have the physical self-confidence to undertake the risks that are present in these encounters . |
| 14 | For only then did it come to her that — she still had n't done her interview ! |
| 15 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 16 | Only then did he return to the newspaper . |
| 17 | Only then did he stand with his back to the fireplace and look about the room . |
| 18 | Only then did he disclose to John Macnab that he and Margaret were leaving for Germany next morning , 26 August , the day on which the powers of detention and internment would come into effect . |
| 19 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 20 | And only sometimes do they focus on legislation . ’ |
| 21 | Now here 's a couple of customers , you were at the circus , first of all how did you feel about the circus that you saw ? |
| 22 | So how does he feel about Nick ? |
| 23 | So how does she compare with her contemporaries ? |
| 24 | So how did they react to you when you your mum and dad when you actually when you moved in here . |
| 25 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
| 26 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 27 | So how did he come to be involved in the Vauxhall Layla advert ? |
| 28 | SO HOW DID YOU GET ON SPOTting the errors in the picture Guinness Today published in the last issue as part of the new PRoPS initiative at Park Royal ? |
| 29 | LH : So how did you deal with that issue ? |
| 30 | So how did she feel about becoming corps officer ? |