Example sentences of "not [verb] it at the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
8 This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time .
9 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 .
10 In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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