Example sentences of "but not [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many but not all did . |
| 5 | But not once did he see a young girl . |
| 6 | But not once did Jean-Claude ask me about it . |
| 7 | He had spent much of the trial gazing around the court room particularly into the public gallery , but not once did he see Carol . |