Example sentences of "only [noun sg] [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only , the only bit I did find was the very last part during the course did n't sound as natural as the rest of it . |
| 2 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |
| 3 | ‘ The only person who did catch a glimmer of the truth was poor Dame Frances . |
| 4 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 5 | it 's the only date I did remember from school |
| 6 | It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ? |
| 7 | One thing did upset him , and that was innovation ; if the Vicar discovered anything new , on either the theological or the social horizon , he grew hot it was the only time he did get hot . |