Example sentences of "not [verb] it at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy 's not using it at the moment , oh goodness me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 9 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 10 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 11 | Exactly and if you do n't pay it , and there are a few silly old so and sos not paying it at the moment , I mean the rest of us have had to pa |
| 12 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 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 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 16 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
| 17 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage . |
| 22 | not throw it at the cyclist had I ? |