Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched .
2 Not only did he needlessly place himself in danger , but no charges were brought against his prisoners .
3 Teacher : So did he actually become a sportsman ?
4 But yeah so does he still write that ?
5 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 .
6 I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’
7 Old , old jeans , worn-out shirt ; how did he still manage to look so devastating ?
8 How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ?
9 How did he ever settle ? ’
10 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 .
11 Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love .
12 Only when she had managed to stop crying and he had dried her face completely did he even attempt to answer .
13 Why did he rather walk entirely unprotected , apart from the body armour .
14 Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ?
15 Why did he always make her want to cry ?
16 Why did he always want to go the long way round .
17 Why did he always choose to lose his temper over issues in which he was in the wrong ?
18 Why did he always go for those parts , those double entendres ?
19 Why did he always have to work alone ?
20 Why did he now want it back ?
21 Why did he never want to marry me ? ’
22 At times Anne felt sure that he was attracted to her , but if so why did he never ask to meet her , and why did he conceal these chance meetings from his family ?
23 They said at the trial that he was a kind husband , a good neighbour — why did he suddenly do this terrible thing ?
24 Why did he suddenly do that ?
25 So when did he suddenly become so buddy-buddy with her ?
26 For what a man seeth , why does he yet hope for ?
27 Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ?
28 Why does he just hang it you know put in the tumble dryer or hang it in the garage ?
29 If Leeds are so shite why does he still go to Elland Rd to watch on his days off I wonder ? ?
30 Why does he always have to go on like that ? ’
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