Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did she not read the charge but the folding back of the pages would have tended to discourage her from doing so . |
| 2 | Not only did it not find the islands but it could n't find the way home . |
| 3 | How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ? |
| 4 | So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ? |
| 5 | So did you generally have a , a daily lady to come and help or |
| 6 | Teacher : So did he actually become a sportsman ? |
| 7 | Familiarity Rating : ‘ How well did you previously know the junction ? |
| 8 | Right did we actually do the susceptible babies ? |
| 9 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 10 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 11 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 12 | But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ? |
| 13 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you not call the fire brigade ? ’ he asked . |
| 15 | Why did you not have the common decency to inform your uncle Orrin of where you were going , even if you no longer wish to oblige your mother and me ? ’ |
| 16 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 17 | Why did he not quote the decisive passages which they contained ? |
| 18 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 19 | If Parliament had intended that , why did it not call the Act the ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ ? |
| 20 | And when did they actually terminate the employment did it take effect from the eighteenth of June or what ? |
| 21 | When did you ever see a student wearing that Manc gear ? |