Example sentences of "did [not/n't] realise at " in BNC.

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1 What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise .
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 What he did not realise at that stage was that it was meaningless to compare Baldwin 's speed with that of Bonar Law , for Baldwin did not work at all in Law 's sense .
4 She went in , and because her eyes were on ceilings and walls did not realise at once they were , after all , there , two low huddling mounds , under blankets , shawls and all kinds of bits and pieces of stuffs , mostly flowered .
5 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 .
6 Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York .
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 .
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