Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] it at the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
4 | 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 … |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
10 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
11 | We did n't watch it at the cinema . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’ |
14 | Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest . |
15 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
16 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
21 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
22 | No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that . |
23 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
24 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
25 | She insisted that she had never seen it at the design stage . |