Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The plonker does n't actually know how to operate it at the moment but he will once he 's passed his night school exams . |
2 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
3 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
4 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
5 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
6 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
7 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
8 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
9 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
10 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
11 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
12 | We did n't watch it at the cinema . |
13 | That 's why I wrote to you about Herr Sussmeyer and enclosed the pubic hair , though I did n't realise it at the time . |
14 | Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’ |
15 | Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest . |
16 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
17 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
18 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
19 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
20 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
21 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
22 | His speed was such he did n't approach it at a speed where he could erm er l lay off and er let something happen . |
23 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
24 | No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that . |
25 | If you have a young family a sandpit can be popular but do n't site it at the bottom of the garden out of sight . |
26 | well I 'm always calling them tweedle dum and tweedle dee , hey do n't throw it at the house , it might be something fragile |
27 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
28 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
29 | SO next time you need washing powder , washing up liquid , shampoo , etc. do n't buy it at the supermarket ( they make enough profit already ! ) order it from me ( I order on Sundays to deliver the next Friday ) and LET NCT HAVE THE PROFITS … |
30 | We do n't have it at the Den . |