Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had that doctor and priest not forcibly removed Cormac and Kathleen ? |
| 2 | When the fell race became a regular part of Burnsall Feast Sports , the runners not only wore clothes but also their hobnailed working boots . |
| 3 | He not only dreamed Pantisocracy , he preached it as well . |
| 4 | Now , for the first time , I was surrounded by people who not only had cancer , but unlike those in hospital , knew that they had it . |
| 5 | Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well ! |
| 6 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 7 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |
| 8 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 9 | Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw . |
| 10 | Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club . |
| 11 | Not only had Count Raymond V supported the Young King in 1183 , but early in the next year his son Raymond VI had let some routiers into the Limousin . |
| 12 | Not only had Margrida assumed that Simon was her boyfriend , but Celeste had clearly thought the same yesterday — and just now a hearty , middle-aged Dalgety executive had stopped her to say how fortunate their new driver was to have such a pretty and successful young lady as his amor . |
| 13 | Moreover not only had Iraq , eager for an end to the war for some time , agreed to the principle of a cease-fire but Iran , initially sceptical and despite Ayatollah Khomeini 's strong misgivings , accepted the resolution , and also the proposal that the UN secretary-general visit Iran forthwith to study the practicalities of the cease-fire . |
| 14 | Not only had travel been impossible , it felt like ages since she had seen any beautiful clothes or touched any rich materials . |
| 15 | Not only had SAAB innovated with their use of the line-out system , they had also , as previously mentioned , used group working to operate the welding machinery , and they had also taken care , in the light of union concern about the matter , to minimise the extent of machine-paced short job cycle time working . |
| 16 | Not only had Lothar consolidated his position west of the Meuse ; he had heavily defeated Louis the German 's forces in the Rhineland and driven Louis back to Bavaria . |
| 17 | Not only had Ryan ruined her love and her trust , but he had also made her a coward . |
| 18 | Not only had Auguste taken her to see the amusing Charley 's Aunt , but Alfred had escorted her to Ramsgate to see Harbour Lights . |
| 19 | Not only had dialogue with the French communist party on this highly sensitive issue rapidly degenerated into counter-productive name calling , but also Sartre himself had been gradually moving progressively closer during the late 1940s and early 1950s to the politics of the PCF . |
| 20 | Not only had Cora-Beth been incredibly patient and understanding about his reluctance to become engaged these past two years , but during that period of his life she had somehow made it possible for them to renew their old easy friendship . |
| 21 | Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul 's reference to Christ as the propitiation ( with its notions of appeasement ) for sins , 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on . |
| 22 | Not only had Bohr explained Balmer 's mysterious formula ( and other later formulae for lines corresponding to ending up in orbits with unc but he had also enabled the value of the Rydberg constant A to be calculated in terms of the known quantities m , e , c and h . |
| 23 | She closed her eyes briefly to say a silent prayer of thanks that , not only had Stephen received the son for whom he had so longed , but that the baby was the image of his father . |
| 24 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 25 | They were thrilled when they suddenly realized that not only had Tom Mix and Gloria Swanson been in the audience on opening night but were in the same room with them at the party afterwards . |
| 26 | They not only had tanks , they had er they had aircraft . |
| 27 | Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather 's name , but the name he had given his adopted son . |
| 28 | Not only had Saints offered the Canberra captain a lucrative contract , McIntyre said , they had asked him to canvass his team-mates as well . |
| 29 | In the late nineteenth century , the pastime of rambling through open countryside had been restricted to those who not only had time at their disposal but also the financial capability to travel into rural areas . |
| 30 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |