Example sentences of "and only [adv] did [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 6 | 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 . |