Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself not only enjoying the birds , but the flowers as well . |
| 2 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 3 | This paraphrase of Paul 's words in Ephesians 4:26 guaranteed they not only resolved conflicts but also gave and received forgiveness . |
| 4 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 5 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
| 6 | Did you not also walk over the same stones ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 7 | Did she not now have a husband , a child , a home ? |
| 8 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 9 | Did we not recently see riots on the streets of Moscow , with two factions fighting it out ? |
| 10 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 11 | But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ? |
| 12 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 13 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |
| 14 | He said he remembered her well , hoped she was flourishing , and had I not better get off to my supper ? |
| 15 | Had she not already decided that five and a half years of girlhood dreams bore little resemblance to the harsh warrior beside her ? |
| 16 | Had she not already known , Ronni would never have guessed the truth . |
| 17 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 18 | Had she not wildly exaggerated the significance of the advertisement ? |
| 19 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 20 | For had he not already forgotten her ? |
| 21 | Before he does so , however , he has a vision of what his life should and would have been had he not voluntarily submitted himself to his final sacrifice . |
| 22 | Had he not better make that clear to both the Conservative and Labour Members who still believe that Britain could stay out of the developments that will take place in Europe ? |