Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] did [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right right did you take her out on the evening ? |
| 2 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 3 | Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
| 5 | Only slowly did he trace the interference to the calculator , battery powered , made by Casio . |
| 6 | Only slowly did he release the strap , as if he was reluctant to do so , and it stretched her nerves unbearably . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 9 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 10 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 11 | The temptation to evade the truth was suddenly almost more than Harry could bear , so achingly did he want to go home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 14 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 15 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 16 | You 're gon na mess with that and it 'll be crackling all over Did you know ? |
| 17 | Only once did we have leave together for more than forty-eight hours back in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Only once did she think of Johnny , when , as the morning wore away , one of the mothers , who was sitting reading while father jumped the waves with the children at the water 's edge , closed her book , and spreading a cloth on the sand , began to set out the picnic . |
| 19 | Only once did I bear resentment after being beaten . |
| 20 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Only once did he stop , having looped back towards the City , in Finsbury Circus . |
| 23 | Only once did he seem really surprised . |
| 24 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 25 | Only gradually did it emerge that she was rather a miniature whirlwind , perhaps an inch shorter even than Charlotte , but so slender that she escaped looking like a pocket edition . |
| 26 | Only gradually did she perceive the extent of his coldness . |
| 27 | Only gradually did he become conscious of a commotion in the darkness beside him . |
| 28 | She was a confident , outgoing girl who usually interacted quite happily with people of either sex and any age , but she was reduced to silence in Luke Scott 's presence , so deeply did he disturb her . |
| 29 | But how long after did they realise that they were saving the environment by not having to dump the waste , and by using Organic Matter to help plant-life grow , rather than synthetic chemicals ? |
| 30 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |