Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 2 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 3 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 4 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 5 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 6 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 7 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 8 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't realise at the time what had happened . |
| 10 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 11 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 12 | I did n't object at the time , but afterwards I felt dirty , exploited and used . |
| 13 | I did n't look at the denomination but there was no doubt it would have been high . |
| 14 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 15 | ‘ To be a member of the Labour party you had to be a member of the staff association but I did n't know at the time , ’ says Davies . |
| 16 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 17 | And I must admit I did n't know at the time exactly what her flying weight should be . |
| 18 | I did n't know at the time . |
| 19 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 22 | Of course I did n't realize at the time just how deep I 'd get in and I ca n't be blamed for not seeing what would happen in the end . |
| 23 | I did n't realize at the time when I was getting headaches , migraines . |
| 24 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 25 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 26 | Both Delaunay and Le Fauconnier , who did not exhibit at the Galerie de la Boétie either , were at this point on less friendly terms with the other members of the movement , and for this reason their works were not illustrated in Du Cubisme . |
| 27 | Except er I , I mean I 'd say that the income funds actually performed quite well , if you did n't look at the capital value . |
| 28 | ‘ You did n't quibble at the Feathers , ’ he snapped . |
| 29 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 30 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |