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 | ‘ And just why did she stay the night in Piazza Pitti ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And just how did he get up there ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And indeed how did he know . |
| 16 | Australia was a big place ; no real reason to suppose he knew her parents , and yet why did she keep getting this feeling of being manipulated ? |
| 17 | And again why did you put trousers on him ? |
| 18 | And never again did she make the same mistake . |
| 19 | Dom Grossard further informs us that ‘ He could tell at once which grapes were from which vineyards and would say , ‘ The wine of that vineyard must be married with the wine of that one ’ , and never once did he make a mistake . ’ |