Example sentences of "only [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only later did she decide on her expertise — ‘ ethnological bush-work ’ . |
| 7 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For only then did it come to her that — she still had n't done her interview ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only then did he return to the newspaper . |
| 12 | Only then did he stand with his back to the fireplace and look about the room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 15 | And only sometimes do they focus on legislation . ’ |
| 16 | Of the seventy-eight clergy whom he ordained , fifty-three had to make the difficult journey to Pelynt for their ordination , either at Trelawne or in the parish church , while in his last seven years as Bishop , only twice did he travel to Exeter for an ordination . |
| 17 | His voice was low , equable and leisurely ; so much so that only afterwards did it dawn upon Charlotte how very few minutes the whole interview had occupied . |
| 18 | Only occasionally do they jar on the nerves , as when your queen on heat starts her pitiful calling ( ’ I want attention ’ — of a special kind ) and attracts a chorus of savagely competitive , caterwauling toms to the space beneath your bedroom window . |