Example sentences of "it at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 32 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 33 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 34 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 35 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 36 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 37 | Without her being conscious of it at the time , her struggle for independence rotated around the figure of Hansel . |
| 38 | Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 40 | Morrissey , it should be pointed out , had absolutely nothing to do with it at the time . |
| 41 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 42 | One wheel would n't retract , although he was n't aware of it at the time , and the next thing he knew he was near the ground . |
| 43 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 44 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
| 45 | Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest . |
| 46 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 47 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 48 | It can be served on the person undertaking the activity , or on a person in control of it at the time the notice was served . |
| 49 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 50 | " We did n't know what to do with it at the time , if you remember . " |
| 51 | Anyway , no one thought anything of it at the time . " |
| 52 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 53 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 54 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 55 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 56 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 57 | No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that . |
| 58 | Did n't think anything to it at the time . |
| 59 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 60 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |