Example sentences of "[vb past] not at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 2 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 3 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 4 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 5 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 6 | The pair basked in a shared arrogance ; arrogance aimed not at the kid in the street but arrogance aimed at Britain 's pop aristocracy . |
| 7 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 8 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 9 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 10 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 11 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |