Example sentences of "[adv] did i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you do n't want it all did I see Robert with you the other day ? |
| 2 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
| 4 | Not only did I discover that all these tender little messages you keep sending me were probably written weeks in advance , but I also discovered just how many other women I share that privilege with . |
| 5 | What was more , not only did I have breakfast with I the family ( I live in the Smiths ' Quarter in Chelsea Barracks ) — toast , bacon and sausages , washed down with milk — but we had no muster parade that morning , and no Adjutant 's Orders to attend . |
| 6 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
| 7 | Not only did I have to borrow a gown , I was even lent a jacket to go under it ! |
| 8 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
| 9 | So long did I have to wait , however , for that second chub , I decide to dispense with floating crust and have a shot at legered crust again . |
| 10 | So did I do well ? |
| 11 | So did I hear you say to your Mum that there 's gon na be a ra exactly the same rap at a |
| 12 | Oh ah yes I bought it in Did I bring you four ? |
| 13 | Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement . |
| 14 | And the way he did what he just did I find most discouraging . ’ |
| 15 | No longer did I bother to appear gracious , sympathetic or understanding . |
| 16 | No longer did I desire conventions of little nymphets , each one wearing playboy 's plastic name badge . |
| 17 | What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’ |
| 18 | What more did I want ? |
| 19 | Only once did I bear resentment after being beaten . |
| 20 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 21 | ’ Not till much later did I learn mother had been a diabetic for many years . |
| 22 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 23 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
| 24 | Vainly did I imagine that such sweet harmonies would calm my violent grief . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | get on 'em now did I tell ya ? |
| 27 | So that 's a beautiful block , now did I explain to you lot yesterday about er , that was yesterday sorry |
| 28 | Now did I think er anything when I 've read these . |
| 29 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 30 | Well did I tell you we had to do this , I did tell you , we had to do this erm competition ? |