Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 3 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 4 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 8 | How long did you say these tapes are ? |
| 9 | How long did it take one man . |
| 10 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 11 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 12 | So did you pass this information . |
| 13 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 14 | So did you enjoy that film at the pictures then ? |
| 15 | So did you enjoy that custard ? |
| 16 | D s So did you notice any sort of class differences within the school ? |
| 17 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 18 | It just made you ask different sorts of questions . |
| 19 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 20 | I once saw someone turn this situation to his advantage . |
| 21 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 22 | So well did he play that Palace signed him from Leicester as soon as the opportunity arose . |
| 23 | They said , well did you have any warning about it ? |
| 24 | How well did you know Sabine Jourdain ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ How well did you know Froggy Davies ? ’ the Inspector asked . |
| 26 | I today did you do one bulls eye no not cut up the thing and say which sport does this person belong to might get a picture of Rob Andrews see if they stick rugby or tennis on . |
| 27 | Right did you hear that Paul ? |
| 28 | Only then did we introduce some terminology . |
| 29 | Why then did you write this book ? |
| 30 | While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources . |