Example sentences of "only [adv] did they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 2 | Only now did they realise how enormous a man he was , for when fighting with his staff he had been crouched with head forward and shoulders bent . |
| 3 | The person they sought had disappeared into thin air ; it was only then did they puzzle and wonder if the dusk had conned them into imagining that they could be mistaken . |
| 4 | Only then did they discover what had been wrong with Edna Popple from 31 St George 's Road , Solihull , Birmingham . |
| 5 | Only then did they see the great livid gashes that no man could have inflicted raked along both Ranks . |
| 6 | They had a mile and a half to go to Kalemouth , and owing to the broken and wooded nature of the country , only occasionally did they glimpse the enemy ahead , Ramsay deliberately holding his men in . |