Example sentences of "[adv] do i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | much do I get from the bank ? |
2 | if you do n't want it all did I see Robert with you the other day ? |
3 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
4 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
5 | Not only did I discover that all these tender little messages you keep sending me were probably written weeks in advance , but I also discovered just how many other women I share that privilege with . |
6 | What was more , not only did I have breakfast with I the family ( I live in the Smiths ' Quarter in Chelsea Barracks ) — toast , bacon and sausages , washed down with milk — but we had no muster parade that morning , and no Adjutant 's Orders to attend . |
7 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
8 | Not only did I have to borrow a gown , I was even lent a jacket to go under it ! |
9 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
10 | ‘ Now 'ow do I look , Sam ? ’ she asked as she stood preening herself . |
11 | So do I do these things ? |
12 | Yeah so do I do n't wan na lose touch with them now . |
13 | Yeah , so Do I start on this one ? |
14 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
15 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
16 | So do I have the right to say anything else or not er very , very briefly erm just one two points of criticism . |
17 | Not only do I care but the Government are meeting their obligations and providing procurement orders to ensure that our forces have the equipment that they need . |
18 | Not only do I suppose that the desk in my study exists when neither I nor anyone else is there to perceive it , I suppose that I , and everyone else , can perceive the same desk . |
19 | Not only do I consume vast amounts of raw materials — I am also a high-level polluter . |
20 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
21 | Not only do I love the way this guitar looks but I can get some great sounds out of it , too . |
22 | ‘ Not only do I bite my nails , ’ he sighs , ‘ but the skin all around them . ’ |
23 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
24 | Not only do I find this displeasing on the eye but I feel it contributed significantly to our eventual relegation . |
25 | ‘ Not only do I find you quite extraordinarily beautiful , but I also feel that I have known you all my life . |
26 | That means not only do I get a glass of beer and a scone by the fire , and the chance to pat one of their huge pack of gorgeous shiny dogs , but if I ask politely and do n't step on the Jack Russell , I also get permission to bring my car along the private road . |
27 | I just want you to know that not only do I hate this dress , I hate you even more . ’ |
28 | I am secretly relieved at the loss of the acid , for not only do I dislike hallucinogens , but I fear we will be stopped , yet another time , by the police . |
29 | I console myself by reflecting that not only do I have a higher lifetime-best break than he does ( 34–30 ) , I also hold several other table records . |
30 | ‘ Not only do I have Penny 's word for it , but I happened to see Nicky on television last night , participating in a chat show that always goes out live from a studio just two blocks away from our own building here . ’ |