Example sentences of "only [adv] did [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 2 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 3 | In consequence in my childhood memories she does not feature as much as my father ; only later did I fully appreciate her forceful yet lovable character . |
| 4 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 5 | Only then did I properly examine what lay before me . |
| 6 | Only then did she briefly introduce herself . |
| 7 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 8 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |