Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] at the time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes .
2 This , of course , did not affect me at the time !
3 Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely .
4 So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time
5 ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East .
6 Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% .
7 Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three .
8 Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth .
9 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
10 This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time .
11 She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic .
12 When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time .
13 Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans .
14 In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties .
15 She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that .
16 It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives .
17 Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence .
18 Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus .
19 do n't always tell you at the time they just say
20 ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time .
21 Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence .
22 And you probably had it at the time .
23 Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked .
24 I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England .
25 Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 ‘ I did n't know it at the time .
28 I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again .
29 Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks .
30 She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down .
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