Example sentences of "i [vb past] not [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 2 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 3 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 4 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 5 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 6 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 7 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 8 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |