Example sentences of "not only [verb] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of this not only made him feel uneasy , but embarrassed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 4 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not only does he get a chance to ‘ spread ’ his thespian wings , he 'll earn Hollywood brownie points for sporting a natty Harrison Ford-style beard . |
| 12 | Not only does he write with total integrity but also with a respect for the language which is becoming increasingly rare . |
| 13 | From the spectators ' viewpoint , not only does he provide wonderful entertainment but he does it without encasing himself in a helmet , now so rare as to be a treat in itself . |
| 14 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 15 | Not only does he believe in horoscopes , he thinks we two have X-ray eyes . |
| 16 | Not only does he need to understand features basic to the Romanesque style — a pre-requisite — but he will want to trace the backgrounds leading to the differing crystallisation of one country 's Romanesque from that of another . |
| 17 | Not only does he play a part in the management of the company , he is also a crucial element in the system of supervision by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 18 | Not only did he vote against the proposals but asked that his objections be publicly recognised . |
| 19 | Not only did he give me a shock , he also hurt me . |
| 20 | The two men knew each other much better now but , on the face of it , despite their joint passion for Sherlock Holmes and Eliot 's reliance upon Hayward 's editorial skills ( not only did he inspect the poetry , but he also removed social malapropisms from the drama ) , they were an oddly matched pair . |
| 21 | Not only did he invade her privacy , he had the gall to sit there and demand that she serve him ! |
| 22 | Not only did he bring his delightful driving skill to the team but also his vast engineering knowledge and the two combined to make Cooper one of the leading forces in Grand Prix racing for several years . |
| 23 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 24 | Not only did he lay the foundation for the theory of computer programs , but in 1952 he published a highly original paper on pattern formation . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’ |
| 27 | Not only did he sponsor us , he kept referring to our escapade as ‘ canoeing ’ ; this was stretching things a bit too far . |
| 28 | Not only did he threaten your daughter 's career , he also threatened to take her away from you . ’ |
| 29 | Not only did he do so , one-handed , but he scored a four , and allowed Gomes to reach his century . |
| 30 | 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 ! |