Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only did we have to show that economically our project needed a reasonable gas price , but we also had to demonstrate that this new policy did not result in huge changes in Pakistan 's domestic consumer price . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 5 | Not only did they have to feed the family and all the guests at ‘ the Big House ’ , but regular supplies were sent to the town house as well , then of course there were all the servants to feed . |
| 6 | Not only did they have to combat debilitating jet-lag and intense heat and humidity , but the Northern Territories included five top class guest players from Queensland and New South Wales . |
| 7 | But when women first achieved the vote , not only did they have no soundly based organisation to support them , they also had no significant power bases in other institutions . |
| 8 | Not only did they have to pay yasak , but Russians came and settled on their best lands . |
| 9 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 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 | We , too , should be grateful to Elizabeth ; not only did she have the foresight to bequeath a will for posterity to read , she also had the good taste — so rare in the family , alas — to be buried beneath a headstone which would retain its legibility over the years . |
| 13 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 14 | Not only did it have bundles of games and demos ( the only games I have enough money to buy ) but also pages of reviews ! |
| 15 | Not only did it have a mismatched neck and body , but the scratchplate was black , and therefore from the '70s . |
| 16 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
| 19 | Not only did I have to borrow a gown , I was even lent a jacket to go under it ! |
| 20 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 21 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 22 | He did not have to suppose that an animal could foresee the consequences of its behaviour ; still less did he have to suppose that an animal could imagine what it would do in its partner 's place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Faye , how long did you have her in that pose ? ’ |
| 25 | How , how long did you have for lunch ? |
| 26 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 27 | So did you have a nice day at school ? |
| 28 | So did you have your lunch at the barn or did you |
| 29 | Oh right , so did you have a good |
| 30 | He was n't queer , she felt sure , so did he have a woman every now and again she wondered ? |