Example sentences of "only [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 2 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 3 | The thought of this not only made him feel uneasy , but embarrassed . |
| 4 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 5 | I only meant you look tired . |
| 6 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 7 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 8 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 9 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Under the window was Mum 's treadle Singer Sewing Machine , always in use , for not only did she make much of the family 's clothes but also dresses and coats for friends , which helped the household purse . |
| 11 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 12 | Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker . |
| 13 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 14 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 15 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 16 | Not only did he make sure that we had a thorough grounding in the 3 Rs , Reading — Writing — Rithmatic , but just as important — he taught us C. P. and K. — Courtesy , Politeness and Kindness : |
| 17 | Well the difference between these two sides was a Newcastle born mid-fielder , by the name of Paul Gascoigne ; not only did he score two second half goals for the first division club , but he dominated proceedings in mid-field . |
| 18 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 19 | In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes . |
| 20 | She really only said it to annoy these old friends of her mother 's . |
| 21 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 22 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 23 | Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body , but now he thought he knew how to correct it . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course I wanted him to produce me , I love his work , but I only wanted him to produce half the album and I wanted to work with other producers . |