Example sentences of "had [not/n't] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years he had not only made himself a small fortune , but in the process gained something of a respectable reputation . |
| 2 | He had not only maintained the buildings , he had enhanced them too , with examples of his craftsmanship , such as the panels in the Hall and the Headmaster 's Table , based on an original in Tideswell Church . |
| 3 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 4 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 5 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 6 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 7 | On their return they discovered he had not only done as instructed but painted the trees which lined the drive as well . |
| 8 | By 1914 Japan had not only achieved revision of the unequal treaties , but also alliance with Britain and the beginnings of an empire . |
| 9 | The movement owed its existence in part to an amalgam of anxieties specific to the London crisis of the 1860s , in particular to what Gareth Stedman Jones has called ‘ The Deformation of the Gift ’ , that is , the emergence of a gulf between the classes which had not only destroyed the ‘ gift relationship ’ involving elements of ‘ prestige , subordination and obligation ’ , but was also fundamentally responsible for the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor . |
| 10 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 11 | G9 had not only secured Titron — it had also been a probe . |
| 12 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |
| 13 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |
| 14 | He had not only eaten his own packed lunch — sandwiches and cold sausages and bananas — but most of Carrie 's as well . |
| 15 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 16 | They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote . |
| 17 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 18 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 19 | Ever since Charity arrived in her flat , Clarissa had not only remained shy , but puzzled . |
| 20 | One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it . |
| 21 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 22 | How depressed those tough pioneers would be to see their descendants , who had not only lost their pioneer spirit , but the ability to walk ! |
| 23 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 25 | It was n't the best news to come home to — finding my renegade nephew had not only broken and entered my apartment but was bent on destroying an important career opportunity by eloping with some feather-brained teenager ! |
| 26 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 27 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 28 | Playing Desert Storm on my Sega console had not only eroded my morals , it had disturbed my beauty sleep . |
| 29 | By 1967 the industrial sector of the West Bank had not only shrunk from 12 per cent to 9 per cent of the gross domestic product , but was now smaller than in any neighbouring Arab area , and in particular in comparison with industry in the East Bank , which had been virtually non-existent before 1948 . |
| 30 | ‘ Captain Fantastic did very well , ’ she agreed , her tone a little weary because the young man had not only spent every minute of the previous evening blowing his own trumpet , but much of their journey today , too . |