Example sentences of "[adj] did [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until around 1540 did undertakings begin to proliferate , and even then the work was never a whole-time occupation , production being organised in ‘ campaigns ’ lasting from two to six months , mainly in winter when the rains swelled the streamlets and filled the ponds which powered the furnace bellows and the tilt-hammers of the forges . |
| 2 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 3 | 1 Can you remember any particular books you liked when you were very young ( before you started Juniors ) ? 2 What were they ? 3 How much can you remember about them ? 4 What was good about them ? 5 Do you have any especially happy memories about reading in those days ? 6 Or any especially unhappy memories ? 7 Did learning to write help your reading ? 8 Talk about your first experiences of reading with a friend and write down all the things you can remember . |
| 4 | Only after Sigibert 's murder in 575 did Chilperic gain permanent control of the city , whereupon Leudast regained his old office . |
| 5 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 6 | How much did people pay for secondhand books ? |
| 7 | Not until the collapse of Ussher 's project in 1626 did Calandrini reside in Stableford Abbots . |
| 8 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 9 | Not until the 1760s did Britain begin to live down her reputation ( based on the violence of the period 1640–1714 ) as an inveterately turbulent and factious country where almost anything could happen . |
| 10 | But not until the 1970s did planners recognise precious qualities in the mature suburb , the best of which are now conservation areas . |
| 11 | Not until September 1339 did Edward feel able to move . |
| 12 | Least of all did Alain begrudge Lauda his third title . |
| 13 | Only towards the end of 1992 did IBM start to make overtures towards the lower end of the PC market with its revamped PS/1 series and Value — Point range . |
| 14 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 15 | Only in 1987 did SUFRAMA begin to promote exports . |
| 16 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 17 | With neither did Baldwin establish very easy relations . |
| 18 | Neither did Liza have any idea that she had also inherited from Tom Tremayne the convenient ability of closing her mind to unpalatable truths . |
| 19 | Only after that did Palestinians begin stoning the police and Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall situated at the foot of the Mount . |
| 20 | In vain did North point out that he had worked , always , on the third floor of the Old Executive Office Building ( ’ the only third-floor basement in Washington ’ ) . |
| 21 | Not until 1926 did servicing catch up with urgent repair needs . |
| 22 | Only during the 1980s did Korea begin to reduce its restrictions against foreign investment as an added means of linking more directly with the international system . |
| 23 | Only when they were ready did Zack open the boot of the Volvo . |