Example sentences of "only do he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not only did he prove himself the master of a number of accredited and experienced Division Two full-backs but he was in his usual place of outside-right in Palace 's best-ever Cup victory when we walloped Everton 6–0 at Goodison on 7 January 1922 . |
| 32 | In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes . |
| 33 | Not only did he catch a crestfallen Kelly , who had started a minute ahead of him , but he socked the hopes of Frenchman Charly Mottet and the Swiss powerhouse Thomas Wegmuller . |
| 34 | Not only did he share his predecessor 's misgivings about aiding any rebels , Calvinist or otherwise , he also had a strong temperamental dislike of all conflict . |
| 35 | Not only did he look very pleased , but he did the ‘ show the shirt ’ routine to the crowd … as if to say — look boys , Im a Leeds Utd player — and proud of it . |
| 36 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 37 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 38 | John George had long ceased to play the father to John : not only did he put his son first at all times , but his alcoholism made him extremely difficult to deal with . |
| 39 | Not only did he enjoy the occasion he also raised around £750 for Leukaemia and Kidney Research . |
| 40 | Not only did he see no advantage in change , he believed he could prevent it indefinitely . |
| 41 | Old Van Leer left nothing to chance : not only did he plan his own funeral , he even made Wim rehearse a funeral oration , which he did with his usual brio . |
| 42 | Not only did he embark upon freeing the serfs as soon as foreign affairs ceased to occupy the bulk of his attention , but also he intervened repeatedly in the process to galvanize his officials and overcome the mistrust of conservatives . |
| 43 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 44 | Not only did he order the apple pie and cream , but he also poured her yet another glass of wine — somehow she seemed to have drunk the other already ! |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 55 | Not only does he write with total integrity but also with a respect for the language which is becoming increasingly rare . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Not only does he believe in horoscopes , he thinks we two have X-ray eyes . |