Example sentences of "[adv] did the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 2 | An investigation by Allan ( 1979 ) , for instance , found that not only did the middle class have more friends , but they were also drawn from a greater variety of social settings and over a wider geographical area . |
| 3 | I only did the nude modelling because my sister did it . |
| 4 | Not only did the Belgian Army remain threateningly ensconced in Antwerp , but Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , had ordered a brigade of 3,000 British Marines to Ostend on 17 August . |
| 5 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 6 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 7 | Not only did the British Library provide the principal funding for the seminar , but its staff also provided valuable contributions . |
| 8 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 9 | Not only did the hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) get his facts wrong , but the key point — |
| 10 | So did the Canadian financier Conrad Black . |
| 11 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 12 | The Roman toga went out of fashion fifteen hundred years ago , so did the Roman cookbook . |
| 13 | The domain-specific dictionaries made a significant contribution to each respective domain-specific text , but so did the general dictionary . |
| 14 | The bank rate went down , and so did the Irish government , while the weight of lorries allowed on the roads of Britain went up from 3212 to 38 tonnes . |
| 15 | So did the mysterious attack on the home of a leading multi-party proponent . |
| 16 | So did the Labour Party have staunch working class support in |
| 17 | so did the automatic thing which proves that it takes a bit of time and patience before you 've achieved this |
| 18 | ‘ The fellow who stayed with me went back and so did the other squire . |
| 19 | But if Darwinian biological evolution suggested a hierarchy of races , so did the comparative method as applied in ‘ cultural anthropology ’ , of which E. B. Tylor 's Primitive Culture ( 1871 ) was the leading landmark . |
| 20 | He looked very unlike his usual tidy self , his collarless shirt changed him completely , so did the ruffling lather on his chin . |
| 21 | The King of Spain got money from his empire in the form of bullion from its mines and , after the 60-year period from 1580 to 1640 in which Spain ruled over Portugal , so did the Portuguese empire . |
| 22 | She and her lawyers arrived at Kirkwall Sheriff Court , So did the Acting Reporter , Gordon Sloan . |
| 23 | Just as an earlier generation of social survey researchers in Britain had made use of developments in statistics , so did the post-war generation of social scientists in the United States , though building on work done prior to this period . |
| 24 | And thus did the big tour continue . |
| 25 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 26 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 27 | Not once did the other man interrupt the litany , and it was only when a rapping on the door , announcing Chant 's return , interrupted the flow that Estabrook remembered there was anyone else alive in the world tonight beside himself and his confessor . |
| 28 | Only years later did the full story of Grom 's voyage to the Elven land of Ulthuan emerge , and did Men learn of the final defeat and destruction of the Waaagh before Tor Yvresse |
| 29 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 30 | So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ? |