Example sentences of "[verb] that [adv] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just want you to know that not only do I hate this dress , I hate you even more . ’ |
| 2 | As all the therapies mentioned above are holistic in nature , you may be delightfully surprised to find that not only do you recover from whatever was ailing you but you also improve your general level of health and well-being . |
| 3 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 4 | The report revealed that not only do a lot of students want to leave university before they graduate , but ninety per cent have problems with the volume of work and fifty per cent experienced excess pressure at exam time . |
| 5 | I console myself by reflecting that not only do I have a higher lifetime-best break than he does ( 34–30 ) , I also hold several other table records . |
| 6 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 7 | This means that not only do we describe ourselves to ourselves and create identity constructs but we can also face the issue of whether we want to alter those constructs and become another kind of person . |
| 8 | I have discovered that not only do they pass their shape and colour , but behavioural patterns as well . |
| 9 | Does he agree that not only do those excellent schemes make a positive contribution towards crime prevention , but they build bridges between the police and the community ? |
| 10 | Not only would this be inefficient and therefore slow , but introspection suggests that only rarely do we consciously ponder the pronunciations of words . |