Example sentences of "he not only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 2 | It was a fate he not only accepted but embraced . |
| 3 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 4 | According to reports , he not only scored twice , but played very well throughout . |
| 5 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 6 | Robert Naish was surely surprised at the apparent ease with which he not only achieved support but in so doing effectively acquired the Committee 's crucial agreement to buy out the bondholders ! |
| 7 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 8 | He not only believed that she would be a willing accessory to his two-timing Cavell , but that Cavell either would n't realise what was happening or would n't mind if she did . |
| 9 | He really believed in it : he not only thought that others should remain silent during his threadbare pontifications , but he actually believed they would benefit from them . |
| 10 | He not only entered politics , but had a chair of astronomy created for him , and was in 1854 appointed Director of the Paris Observatory . |
| 11 | He not only handed control of the new Secret Committee to grandees but in the same month , December 1856 , raised the qualification for promotion to the hereditary nobility from the achievement of rank five on the Table of Ranks to the achievement of rank four . |
| 12 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 13 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 14 | Euthymides felt this himself , for he not only signed this vase on the front : among the figures on the back he wrote ‘ As never Euphronios ’ . |
| 15 | He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work . |
| 16 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 17 | By promising the Jacobites that he would seek to get James Francis Stuart acknowledged as Anne 's successor , he not only won Jacobite support at home , but was also able to neutralise the Jacobite threat abroad , by making it appear that there was no point in St Germain or the French attempting an invasion . |
| 18 | The respect that was growing so unstoppably in her heart and mind told her he not only meant what he said but had proven beyond doubt that he was capable of it . |
| 19 | He not only informed on fellow-members of the Communist Party in 1934–6 and requested a public session in which to do so ‘ because secrecy serves the Communist cause ’ ; he took a display advertisement in the New York Times to justify himself . |
| 20 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |