Example sentences of "only did [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For not only did Mrs Keppel maintain her position as maîtresse en titre but she became one of the leading personalities of the Edwardian court . |
| 2 | And not only did Gerry Fitt , the SDLP 's only MP at the time , abstain in the vote , he persuaded Independent Nationalist MP , Frank Maguire to abstain as well . |
| 3 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 4 | The next paragraph says that not only did Lord Young cut the published penalty clause for BAe from £650 million to £400 million as disclosed in the National Audit Office memorandum , but offered ‘ a private side-letter ’ waiving the penalty ‘ the text of which would be agreed with BAe in advance ’ . |
| 5 | Not only did Holroyd Smith succeed in a location where the fierce Irish Sea buried the delicate electrical apparatus of the day under shingle and salt water , but his method of transmitting electricity along the Promenade by means of a naked electrical conductor located between the tram rails in a conduit with a narrow slot at the top , was similar to installations later made by major electrical companies in great cities where overhead lines were considered rude . |
| 6 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 7 | Not only did Robert Recorde write the first series of mathematics texts in English : he expressed ( in his Ground of Artes of 1543 ) a very modern viewpoint . |
| 8 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |