Example sentences of "[adv] did [pron] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not only did he build and restore churches and monasteries , but also he repaired the city walls ; he corresponded with Caesarius of Clermont about laying underground water-pipes , and he was responsible for severing road-communications with the south to prevent the spread of plague . |
| 4 | In 1785 alone , not only did he survey and engrave the series of charts mentioned above , but he also found time to make a series of estate plans for Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule ( which Kerr failed to pay for ) , to survey a line for a canal from the Forth to the Clyde for Robert Whitworth , and to engrave several plans for the court of session in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 6 | And how long did it take before you felt settled in ? |
| 7 | So did you go and to see her at erm often |
| 8 | Oh yes not too far away so did you go and see him often ? |
| 9 | Only after the event was over did we discover that he had in fact contributed to a booklet produced just before the 1987 general election by the Society of Conservative Lawyers . |
| 10 | What exactly did you do when you went round the shops ? |
| 11 | She 's always down my ear , saying well what exactly did you do and and what did you do next ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not once did he notice that he was being followed . |
| 14 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 15 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 16 | Vainly did I imagine that such sweet harmonies would calm my violent grief . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Also did you realise that the absorption of amino acids through the gut is competitive , i.e. if you put a load of neat amino acids into a bait you can prevent the absorption of others that are needed ! |
| 19 | Only now did she recognise that there had been more than one horse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 22 | So well did he play that he was named man of the match . |
| 23 | Well well did anything happen when I put the acid in ? |
| 24 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 25 | You said they have n't been round round do they do they tend to keep away from here so how did they react when you actually first |
| 26 | Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags . |
| 27 | … but how did they feel when the covers came off ? |
| 28 | You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ? |
| 29 | You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ? |
| 30 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |