Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 7 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 12 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 13 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |