Example sentences of "only [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 2 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 3 | I only saw it open a few times but as far as I remember there were a couple of old ledgers and a stack of pocket files . ’ |
| 4 | I only meant it does n't look like there 's going to be another . " |
| 5 | In the village , she stopped to buy groceries ; first on her list came cheese , then butter , then two pounds of very thin rashers of smoked bacon — Andrew only liked it smoked , and cut very thin . |
| 6 | Not only did it give prestige and add a sense of urgency to an undertaking , it also exerted the pressure of old feudal practice upon vassals to join their lord in person . |
| 7 | As inspirational pronouncement rather than an operational blueprint , not only did it give expression to and authority for the idea that a fairer , juster society should be created , as the inalienable rights of man required ; but more , it asserted that thanks to machinery powered by steam it could be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ She only did it to take him off you , ’ Nick said . |
| 12 | Not only did it concur with Constantine 's presentation of himself as Messiah . |
| 13 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 14 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 18 | Not only did it work perfectly , but the output was indistinguishable from the 550C . |
| 19 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |
| 20 | Not only did it administer , but it was also a source of political rewards , through which the monarch could foster loyalty to his regime.l |
| 21 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 22 | Not only did it increase understanding of both quantitative and qualitative indicators , it also focused teachers ' attention on issues of quality in their work . |
| 23 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 24 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 25 | Not only did it prove to be the winning point , but it was the Lavey 's stalwart 's first score in the present championship campaign . |
| 26 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 27 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 28 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 29 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 30 | Not only did it have bundles of games and demos ( the only games I have enough money to buy ) but also pages of reviews ! |