Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] did it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 2 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 6 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 7 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 8 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 9 | For only then did it come to her that — she still had n't done her interview ! |
| 10 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 11 | ‘ So how did it go today ? ’ |
| 12 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 13 | ‘ So how did it work out for you ? ’ |
| 14 | So how did it come to evolve by slow , steady , infinitesimally small Darwinian improvements ? |
| 15 | ‘ So how did it happen ? |
| 16 | So much good did it do them to take him up to that heathen place in Naas . |
| 17 | Much good did it do ! |
| 18 | So where did it come from ? |
| 19 | So where did it come from ? ’ |
| 20 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 21 | So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing ? |
| 22 | ‘ So why did it go wrong ? ’ she asked a little bitterly . |
| 23 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
| 24 | So why did it disturb him with Deana ? |
| 25 | So why did it recruit its presenters from Tory Wankers Against Taste ? |
| 26 | ‘ So why did it kill them , but leave all of us , and Urnst presumably , alive ? ’ |
| 27 | His voice was low , equable and leisurely ; so much so that only afterwards did it dawn upon Charlotte how very few minutes the whole interview had occupied . |
| 28 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 29 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 30 | Not only did it concur with Constantine 's presentation of himself as Messiah . |