Example sentences of "although [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did not know it , my encounter with Gladstone Murray and Ernie Bushnell in February was beginning to bear fruit , and my days as newspaperman cum radio programme director were numbered . |
| 2 | Although she does not realise it , she is searching for enlightenment and encourages her fusion with Geraldine : ‘ Christabel stretched forth her hand ’ . |
| 3 | Theodora was surprised , although she did not show it . |
| 4 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 5 | Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant . |
| 6 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 7 | But although she did not deny it she knew nothing . |
| 8 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 9 | Although we did not attend it , we had visited St Stephen 's , Gloucester Road , together , no doubt out of forgivable curiosity , though Eliot might not have thought excusable any curiosity he had been the means of exciting in that sphere . |
| 10 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 11 | Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business . |
| 12 | The girls , although they did not know it , found her relaxing . |
| 13 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 14 | The first was the importance of man 's biological base , that is , that man belongs to a species which has to survive in a material environment , and that he has certain innate drives or instincts which affect his behaviour , although they do not determine it . |
| 15 | For example , although they do not know it yet , EC taxpayers will probably end up paying $580m on a cut-price sale of 200,000 tonnes of butter to the Soviet Union which is currently being completed . |
| 16 | But although they do not know it , the fight is nearly over . |
| 17 | Although they do not need it to fight they are usually armed with a big club made from a tree trunk . |
| 18 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 21 | Although he did not know it , Roxie Farmer and her sister-in-law were having the bonfire they had promised themselves . |
| 22 | It was while touring the United States with Fred Karno [ q.v. ] in 1912 that he tried his luck on American vaudeville , principally in a duo with his common-law wife , Mae Dahlberg , who suggested his stage name , Laurel , although he did not adopt it legally until 1934 . |
| 23 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 24 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |