Example sentences of "[adv] did [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the evening , not only did we sit down to an excellent meal but we were also entertained . |
| 2 | But in nineteen ninety in London not only did they hold on , they won dramatic victories in a number of London boroughs . |
| 3 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 4 | How long did you stay in ? |
| 5 | How long did you go over with her ? |
| 6 | So how long did you live in for ? |
| 7 | d ) How long did she take on her journey home ? |
| 8 | ‘ How long did it go on for ? ’ |
| 9 | How long did it go on ? |
| 10 | How much weight do you remember losing on each , and for how long did it stay off ? |
| 11 | How long did he come in then after I phoned ? |
| 12 | Only when the hollow reverberations of the horses ' feet on the timber rolled along the rock fissures below did he start out of his trance to the realisation that a company of mounted men was riding into Parfois . |
| 13 | ‘ How ever did you get back to Yzordderrex to do that ? ’ |
| 14 | Not until three weeks later did he pass on to colleagues in the CIA , and to Casey , the thought that ‘ perhaps we are overcharging … to send money to the contras . ’ |
| 15 | And thusly did he pump up the volume . |
| 16 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 17 | Not until the fire was almost out did he wake up , swearing to find himself so wet . |
| 18 | Well I mean it 's , it 's well as soon as , it 's , well did you write in and object in within the time ? |
| 19 | So the boss came down the stairs and into the shop and he saw Oh hello , well did you get on with the Your examination ? |
| 20 | How long ago did you send off for it ? |
| 21 | It matters if he hangs on to you , how fast did you get out of it ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Very , very rarely did she buy in , and if she did , then it was a line of expensive Italian knitwear , or silk shirts from Braganza in Spain . |
| 24 | Right did you get on alright ? |
| 25 | Which course did she go on . |
| 26 | ‘ How did they break in , then ? ’ |
| 27 | How did they sort out the mess ? |
| 28 | How did they go about recruiting them ? |
| 29 | Only a few molecules thick , how did they build in so much padding ? |
| 30 | But how did they come about ? |