Example sentences of "only do he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 2 | Not only did he do so , one-handed , but he scored a four , and allowed Gomes to reach his century . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 5 | Not only did he give me a shock , he also hurt me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When Vinnie Jones had his shorts down , not only did he got fined , but we were fined too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not only did he threaten your daughter 's career , he also threatened to take her away from you . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well the difference between these two sides was a Newcastle born mid-fielder , by the name of Paul Gascoigne ; not only did he score two second half goals for the first division club , but he dominated proceedings in mid-field . |
| 15 | Not only did he build and restore churches and monasteries , but also he repaired the city walls ; he corresponded with Caesarius of Clermont about laying underground water-pipes , and he was responsible for severing road-communications with the south to prevent the spread of plague . |
| 16 | Not only did he treat everyone in sight but also led nightly singsongs by thumping away on the pub piano . |
| 17 | Not only did he invade her privacy , he had the gall to sit there and demand that she serve him ! |
| 18 | Not only did he sponsor us , he kept referring to our escapade as ‘ canoeing ’ ; this was stretching things a bit too far . |
| 19 | Not only did he vote against the proposals but asked that his objections be publicly recognised . |
| 20 | In 1785 alone , not only did he survey and engrave the series of charts mentioned above , but he also found time to make a series of estate plans for Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule ( which Kerr failed to pay for ) , to survey a line for a canal from the Forth to the Clyde for Robert Whitworth , and to engrave several plans for the court of session in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Not only did he know their ways and problems but was committed to their advancement . |
| 22 | Not only did he know of it , he also knew she was involved . |
| 23 | Not only did he take about half a dozen players , he took the manager , the tea lady and the backroom staff , and for all I know , the main stand , because that 's not at Banbury any more . |
| 24 | By 1820 , not only did he own Freames , but he was apparently also the owner of neighbouring Pitts Mill , for in that year he leased both to Nathaniel Samuel Marling . |
| 25 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 26 | Not only did he concede the penalty but he also presented White with the perfect chance to cap a memorable day . |
| 27 | Not only did he require a grant of 57,000 acres of the drained land , but , according to Dugdale , he intended to transform the village of Manea into a town to be called Charlemont , which would command the new river system . |
| 28 | Not only did he write music for various Masonic ceremonies ( such as the Maurerische Trauermusik ( Masonic Funeral Music ) , K.477 , for the memorial service of two fellow-Masons ; but , as we shall see , he actually wrote a ‘ Masonic ’ opera that was riddled with the arcane symbolism of the craft — an incredibly daring act for the member of a society dedicated to absolute secrecy to do ( all its members had to swear an oath to ‘ hear and conceal ’ on pain of having their throats cut or their tongues pulled out ) . |
| 29 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 30 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |