Example sentences of "[pron] have not only [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I had not only come to faith . |
2 | I 've not only waitressed at weddings . |
3 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
4 | So you 've not only lived in Nottingham . |
5 | The SDLP leader retorted : ‘ I do n't need advice from unionist politicians who have not only talked to paramilitaries , they have sat down with them , in order to achieve political objectives working together . ’ |
6 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
7 | As ex-Servicemen , they had not only dealt with the situations I feared most , but also those I could not imagine . |
8 | He has not only remained in his job as a chemical engineer but has also been promoted twice and is now principal chemical engineer with Ciba , in Paisley . |
9 | It has not only failed in this , it has opened up a potential new division between private practice and employed lawyers . |
10 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
11 | By the end of the day he had not only helped to further that cause ; by showing outstanding courage and skill in arms in the thick of the fighting he had shown how the knight could use situations of war to win personal renown for himself . |
12 | So it 's not only got to be done , that 's the problem . |