Inversion+in+sentences

Not only __did they rarely hear__ from him, but he seemed to always be at the office from early morning until very late at night. **//This is a Story of a Happy Marriage //****, memoir essays by Ann Patchett ** p. 46: Not only __did I learn__ how to write a novel in Provincetown, I found the perfect person to read it. p. 47: Not only __is our work__ different, but //how// we work is incredibly different. p. 48: A chapter isn’t a short story and needn’t be able to stand alone, __nor is it__ just a random break that signifies the novelist is tired of this particular story line and would like to go on to something else. p. 55: Not only __are rights getting__ more and more complicated in this electronic age, but for the most part publishing houses no longer have slush-pile readers. p.175: Not only __were they calling__ to have the assignment rescinded, they also appeared to want me barred from campus. p. 182: Not until the middle of the night __did I realize__ that he wasn’t saying I was immoral for not judging Lucy. He was saying I was immoral for the things I had done myself. p. 254: Not only __did she have__ a good husband, she had a good job. p. 255: Not only __did he confide__ in her, it seemed that no one in the hospital talked about anything else. **//Thinking in Java //****, by Bruce Eckel ** p.1: Not only __did this book help__ me to pass the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam; it’s also the first book I turn to whenever I have a Java question. Jim Pleger, Loudoun County (Virginia) Government p. 11: Not __only does this keep__ the audience’s minds more active and involved during a hands-on seminar, but it gives the reader a greater sense of accomplishment. p. 35: Not only __is this slow__, it’s inelegant. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">p. 36: Not only __is it a powerful programming language__ built to be secure, cross-platform, and international, but Java is being continually extended to provide language features and libraries that elegantly handle problems that are difficult in traditional programming languages, such as concurrency, database access, network programming, and distributed computing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">p. 42: Not only __does this mean__ “Make me a new String,” but it also gives information about //how// to make the String by supplying an initial character string. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">p. 52: Not only __does it emphasize__ that variable’s static nature, but in some cases it gives the compiler better opportunities for optimization. **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization //****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">, **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">by W. Bruce Fye <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">p. 197: __Hardly had he shaken__ hands with the circulatory system before an artificial heart and aorta had scrambled forth from his nimble brain.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">//“If You Want to Earn More, Work Less”,// by Mark Johanson (BBC, Capital), 13 January 2017 **