Example sentences of "only does he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not only does he connive , she does so too , as in that most disturbing poem , 138 , where the second-person form is strikingly absent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 11 | Not only does he write with total integrity but also with a respect for the language which is becoming increasingly rare . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not only does he believe in horoscopes , he thinks we two have X-ray eyes . |