Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 ‘ I did n't realise at the time what had happened .
33 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 .
34 I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life .
35 And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree .
36 She ca n't cope with the time she she has .
37 If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats .
38 Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income .
39 I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council .
40 Mr Spencer added : ‘ They were n't filming at the time of the incident .
41 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 .
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