Example sentences of "n't [verb] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I — er — did n't think at the time that you 'd be that interested in — ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 4 | ( 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 ? |
| 5 | He , he was a real friendly guy and like I say he never said cheerio before he went , but one day he just painted his aircraft up with the D-day landing signs which we did n't know at the time and the next day he was gone of course it was very much top secret that was but the town just emptied of all Americans it was like a ghost town after them but it had been previously . |
| 6 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 7 | I do n't feel at the moment that I even have the right to his name . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 9 | He did n't look at the boy but stared instead at a potted palm withering in its tub beside the grand piano on the rostrum . |
| 10 | I did n't look at the denomination but there was no doubt it would have been high . |
| 11 | At the 14th , the par-5 , which is now the 15th , Jacklin looked at the scoreboard and Lee says to him ‘ Tony , do n't look at the scoreboard because I can beat all of them up there . |
| 12 | In one he 's in a lift that does n't stop at the top but keeps going into a world of claustrophobia and vertigo . |
| 13 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They did n't arrive at the party until they 'd finished the bottle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Speedy wo n't agree at the moment because he 's writhing in agony and there 's a little bit of retribution that followed that . |