Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almondsbury found another gear after the interval and kept Didcot 's defence on overtime , but so well did they play , goal keeper Andy Tucker was rarely troubled . |
| 2 | Not only did the number of wealthy native industrialists , merchants , bankers and insurance dealers swell , but so too did the ranks of humble businessmen , small-scale manufacturers , self-employed artisans , petty traders and shopkeepers . |
| 3 | The number of aspiring candidates increased in the 1970s , but so too did the number of seats fought . |
| 4 | But so graphically did her words convey her love and concern for them that , reading it aloud , both were reduced to tears . |
| 5 | Legal action was also promised by the Government but only belatedly did the Minister for the Arts pursue the matter under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 6 | He had longed to be reunited with his family from the moment he had learned of his father 's demise — but only now did he recognize the depth of his longing . |
| 7 | But only now did she have confirmation of the full extent of her betrayal by Urquhart . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Robert , as they walked up the High Street , ‘ and I 'm not going on about it , but exactly why did Ali sentence me to death ? ’ |
| 9 | But the car now proved obedient , and the north-east London suburbs received her , soothing her as they usually but not invariably did with their eloquent monotony , their repetitive regularities , street after street of semi-detached houses , their lights lit , their curtains drawn , their television sets humming , their inhabitants safe within . |
| 10 | But not only did the war raise the question of state power and economics ; for Bukharin and the Bolsheviks it signalled the beginning of the end of imperialist capitalism , the first act in the collapse of the system as a whole , a collapse that had been hotly debated in the pre-war Marxist movement in Europe . |
| 11 | But not only did she see herself , small , sitting there ; she also saw through herself ( because the telescope , with its hollow inside , was her ) and she saw that she was hollow . |
| 12 | Many but not all did . |
| 13 | But not once did he see a young girl . |
| 14 | But not once did Jean-Claude ask me about it . |
| 15 | He had spent much of the trial gazing around the court room particularly into the public gallery , but not once did he see Carol . |
| 16 | I could have taken him to task about how he was defining ‘ agree ’ and ‘ honest ’ , but just somehow did n't . |
| 17 | Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 . |
| 18 | ‘ But I stayed composed and cool , I did n't want to get caught by anything stupid but still nearly did when he almost hit me with an uppercut — I felt the wind of that one . |
| 19 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 20 | The talk was a little on the short side , but even so did not hold the attention as well as it might have . |
| 21 | Not only did half the school turn up but seemingly so did hundreds from all the schools in Blackpool . |
| 22 | I would agree with him , but then when did caterers ever ask for an easy life ? |
| 23 | But then why did n't the plant evolve so that it no longer attracted that insect ? |
| 24 | But then how did you start looking ? |
| 25 | The infamous glass pyramid outside the Louvre caused outrage when it was built — but then so did the Eiffel Tower . |
| 26 | But then so did It 's Garry Shandling 's Show , a US import aired on BBC2 four years ago . |
| 27 | Although Elena possessed the powers and ambitions of a Messalina , she had the domestic virtues of a good bourgeois , but then so did her husband . |
| 28 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 29 | But how exactly did men " govern manfully " in the ninth century ? |
| 30 | But how far did discretion carry ? |