Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , it was n't hard for me to play a man ten years my junior , because I was not only physically younger but I 've always been emotionally immature . ’ |
| 2 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 3 | She was not only too apathetic but also too afraid : the Council were mixed up , in her mind , with the police and the Government . |
| 4 | Their action in confiscating certain lordships from her was not only in-herently unjust , wrote the pope , but contrary to the customs of the court of Béarn . |
| 5 | It was not only widely used at once but became the " identification photograph " of the war . |
| 6 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 7 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 8 | It emphasised that he was not only far west of London but far south as well on a latitude with Sicily and southern Spain . |