Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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31 They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance .
32 I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants
33 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
34 Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time .
35 David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time .
36 No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that .
37 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 .
38 Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’
39 Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest .
40 If we do n't go one at a time nobody 'll be heard .
41 He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises .
42 ‘ I 've always wanted to meet you to say something … just to say I 'm sorry , but … but I could n't help meself at the time .
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