Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long d' you reckon we 've got while your mum 's round there ? ’ |
| 2 | So you I mean do you so do you do you go to jumble sales at all or ? |
| 3 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 4 | We have noticed that , by making adjustments to their diet , not only did they overcome their symptoms , but those who were overweight very often lost weight without even trying . |
| 5 | Not only did they enjoy it but it certainly worked extremely well for those that followed it properly . |
| 6 | Not only did she hate him , it was the exact thing he wanted — a sign that she was the little scrubber he believed she was . |
| 7 | But not only did she see herself , small , sitting there ; she also saw through herself ( because the telescope , with its hollow inside , was her ) and she saw that she was hollow . |
| 8 | Not only did she receive them quickly , but her answers arrived back in no time . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 11 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 12 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | So so not only did you read it you heard about it . |
| 15 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 16 | Not only did he give me a shock , he also hurt me . |
| 17 | It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’ |
| 18 | Not only did he bring his delightful driving skill to the team but also his vast engineering knowledge and the two combined to make Cooper one of the leading forces in Grand Prix racing for several years . |
| 19 | Not only did he threaten your daughter 's career , he also threatened to take her away from you . ’ |
| 20 | Not only did he treat everyone in sight but also led nightly singsongs by thumping away on the pub piano . |
| 21 | Not only did he invade her privacy , he had the gall to sit there and demand that she serve him ! |
| 22 | Not only did he sponsor us , he kept referring to our escapade as ‘ canoeing ’ ; this was stretching things a bit too far . |
| 23 | Not only did he know their ways and problems but was committed to their advancement . |
| 24 | Not only did he prove himself the master of a number of accredited and experienced Division Two full-backs but he was in his usual place of outside-right in Palace 's best-ever Cup victory when we walloped Everton 6–0 at Goodison on 7 January 1922 . |
| 25 | Not only did he share his predecessor 's misgivings about aiding any rebels , Calvinist or otherwise , he also had a strong temperamental dislike of all conflict . |
| 26 | John George had long ceased to play the father to John : not only did he put his son first at all times , but his alcoholism made him extremely difficult to deal with . |
| 27 | Old Van Leer left nothing to chance : not only did he plan his own funeral , he even made Wim rehearse a funeral oration , which he did with his usual brio . |
| 28 | So do we phone them once we get to the hotel or do they contact us ? |
| 29 | So do we count it , do we put it ? |
| 30 | So do they think it might be the new clutch or was it the when you went |