Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was low , equable and leisurely ; so much so that only afterwards did it dawn upon Charlotte how very few minutes the whole interview had occupied . |
| 2 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 3 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 4 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 5 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 6 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |