Example sentences of "[adv] did it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 2 | Only gradually did it emerge that she was rather a miniature whirlwind , perhaps an inch shorter even than Charlotte , but so slender that she escaped looking like a pocket edition . |
| 3 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 4 | How did you how d how did it arise that there was this degree of cooperation ? |
| 5 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 6 | That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ? |
| 7 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 8 | ‘ But why did it matter that she teased you , love ? ’ |