Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not entirely convinced he survived . |
| 2 | 664 of Ealdwulf ( in his seventeenth regnal year at the time of the council of Hatfield ( HE IV , 17 ) , son of Anna 's brother , Aethelric , brought to royal power a new branch of the royal family ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , but Ealdwulf 's Northumbrian connection — he was the son of a Deiran princess ( see above , p. 78 ) and in continuing contact with Northumbria ( HE 11 , 15 ) — did not necessarily enable him to exist independently of Wulfhere 's sphere of influence . |
| 3 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 4 | Not much doubt he slipped in there and went to earth in the shed , for some purpose of his own . |
| 5 | Not only had he robbed that particular S&L just three days earlier , but the teller at the window was the same person who had handed him the cash at gunpoint . |
| 6 | ‘ Bet Rachel 's ‘ avin ’ a good laugh , ’ he muttered wryly to himself for not only had he volunteered for fire-watching duties , but he had also volunteered the services of Dobbs and the cart since there was news of petrol rationing . |
| 7 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 8 | Not only had he made a unique and convulsing impact on this generous but hard-headed man , he had made it as an actor . |
| 9 | Not only had he won a match he was desperate to succeed in , he had also earned his Liverpool colours . |
| 10 | Not only had he transformed the political situation among the western Saxons but he had also established himself as the most powerful ruler in southern England . |
| 11 | Not only had he paid out money , some of it his own , but he had forgone almost a month of lunches with Mrs Tobias in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ . |
| 12 | That not only had he stolen her savings , but the money Aunt Jane had left her when she 'd died ? |
| 13 | Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body , but now he thought he knew how to correct it . |
| 14 | Not only had he earned the Huge Reward but for once , indeed the only time without Tom 's help , he had outwitted his most terrible enemy and he could not resist cocking a very vulgar snook at Cut-throat Jake as he went over to shake the Dragoon officer by the hand . |
| 15 | Not only had he resigned at a particularly sensitive historical moment , it was also a political fact of life that the Cold War situation literally demanded that no concessions be made to anyone venturing to attack the party ; and the attempt to rehabilitate the " police spy " Nizan was undoubtedly perceived as an attack on the party . |
| 16 | Not only had he mastered the lines , he had also delivered the speech with greater power than it had ever received , either by him in rehearsal , or by Alex in performance . |
| 17 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 18 | Not only had he managed to manipulate her into going with him to Conway House but also into picking him up from his home and taking him there as well ! |
| 19 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 20 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 21 | The thought of this not only made him feel uneasy , but embarrassed . |
| 22 | Not only does he collect the ball well when under attack , he also distributes it magnificently on occasions , picking out midfielders with great accuracy , sometimes over 20–30 yards . |
| 23 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 24 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 25 | Not only does he enable us to cry ‘ Abba ’ with the joyous obedience and trust of newly adopted members of the family ; not only does he enable us to pray and articulate words of the prayer that Jesus taught us . |
| 26 | Not only does he enable us to cry ‘ Abba ’ with the joyous obedience and trust of newly adopted members of the family ; not only does he enable us to pray and articulate words of the prayer that Jesus taught us . |
| 27 | For not only does he emphasize the continuity of his poetic development but he also introduces echoes and half-parodic reminiscences of the English and European literary inheritance of which he was a beneficiary . |
| 28 | Not only does he appear in many guises — far more than the few I have mentioned here — but the Devil seems to be chief of the evil spirits . |
| 29 | By the law of the land , not only does he possess none of it , he does not even have the right to own any of it . |
| 30 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |