Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] did [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 2 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 3 | Yes and so where did you go ? |
| 4 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 7 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 8 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 9 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 10 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 11 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 12 | ‘ And just why did she stay the night in Piazza Pitti ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And just how did he get up there ? ’ |
| 14 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 15 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 16 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 17 | ( c ) EXPLANATION AND ASSESSMENT " What were the problems which faced Stalin on his accession to power and how successfully did he resolve them ? |
| 18 | And how exactly did she acquire her charming little son ? |
| 19 | And how ill did you have to be before you died ? |
| 20 | And how how did you make these weer ones ? |
| 21 | And how how did he get the coal ? |
| 22 | Yeah , and how long did they stay for , the whole summer ? |
| 23 | ‘ And how long did it stay behind the wall ? ’ |
| 24 | How did the team investigate and how long did it take ? |
| 25 | And how long did it take before you felt settled in ? |
| 26 | ‘ We are strangers and how long did it take us — ten to fifteen minutes — to come here ? |
| 27 | And how long did it take you to cut up , say , one of the bullocks ? |
| 28 | So it 's how quickly is it using electricity and how long did you leave it on for ? |
| 29 | I see and how long did you live there up Road ? |
| 30 | And how long did you get at the end of the quarter to pay this ? |