Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 2 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 3 | Only rarely do they arise with braided line , or in the sophisticated Kevlar or Spectra twist . |
| 4 | The damage done by these species is so great that only rarely do they produce enough identifiable remains for them to be countable . |
| 5 | As humans believe , so also do they think , and as they think , so ultimately do they act . |
| 6 | Only then do they settle down to spawn . |
| 7 | Only then do they speak . |
| 8 | Not only then do they come from a professional sub-culture which permits and often encourages a range of physical contact ( quite apart from the obvious sporting activity , PE departments in schools often administer their own disciplinary code ) but they also have the physical self-confidence to undertake the risks that are present in these encounters . |
| 9 | And only sometimes do they focus on legislation . ’ |
| 10 | As humans believe , so also do they think , and as they think , so ultimately do they act . |
| 11 | Only occasionally do they jar on the nerves , as when your queen on heat starts her pitiful calling ( ’ I want attention ’ — of a special kind ) and attracts a chorus of savagely competitive , caterwauling toms to the space beneath your bedroom window . |
| 12 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 13 | No longer do they panic at the sound of a boat engine , and slap their drowsy pups awake to be hustled into the comparative safety of the sea . |
| 14 | ‘ No longer do they ride in procession through the streets of London . ’ |
| 15 | No longer do they receive an average price of $55 . |
| 16 | In other words they increase the open state probability , they do n't increase the number of channels , or very very rarely do they increase the number of channels , or the unitary current through each channel once it is open . |
| 17 | And too late do they discover that the flame burns and is lethal . |
| 18 | Sometimes parents are very upset and angry , but only very occasionally do they take the extreme course of making girls leave home . |