Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 2 | This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers . |
| 3 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |
| 4 | Not only does it make us horribly uncomfortable and ill-at-ease but it is impossible to disguise the voice . |
| 5 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 6 | Not only does he enable us to cry ‘ Abba ’ with the joyous obedience and trust of newly adopted members of the family ; not only does he enable us to pray and articulate words of the prayer that Jesus taught us . |
| 7 | Not only does he enable us to cry ‘ Abba ’ with the joyous obedience and trust of newly adopted members of the family ; not only does he enable us to pray and articulate words of the prayer that Jesus taught us . |
| 8 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 9 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 10 | Not only have you given me your love , freely , but you have made me able to face life again , without fear , be able to face Mama and Papa when I next see them , enabled me to love again , with all my heart . |
| 11 | Not only do they do you a world of good if you drink them but they also have cosmetic uses . |
| 12 | Not only do they save you lots of points a season , an excellent keeper can give a whole side that extra feeling of confidence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Not only do I find you quite extraordinarily beautiful , but I also feel that I have known you all my life . |
| 15 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 16 | Not only did they enjoy it but it certainly worked extremely well for those that followed it properly . |
| 17 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 18 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 19 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 20 | Not only did she receive them quickly , but her answers arrived back in no time . |
| 21 | Not only did she hate him , it was the exact thing he wanted — a sign that she was the little scrubber he believed she was . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | So so not only did you read it you heard about it . |
| 24 | Not only did he give me a shock , he also hurt me . |
| 25 | It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’ |
| 26 | Not only did he sponsor us , he kept referring to our escapade as ‘ canoeing ’ ; this was stretching things a bit too far . |
| 27 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 28 | A vice is a bad habit or some kind of strange temperament in a horse or pony not normally expected which renders it — dangerous , or less useful or liable to decline in health . |
| 29 | I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way . |
| 30 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |