Example sentences of "[adv] did [pers pn] [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 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | … but how did they feel when the covers came off ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 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 mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 30 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |