Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pers pn] at the time " in BNC.

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1 Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked .
2 I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England .
3 Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 ‘ I did n't know it at the time .
6 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 .
7 Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks .
8 She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down .
9 Indeed , I probably did n't understand her at the time .
10 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 .
11 I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants
12 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
13 Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time .
14 David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time .
15 No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that .
16 That 's why I wrote to you about Herr Sussmeyer and enclosed the pubic hair , though I did n't realise it at the time .
17 Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’
18 Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest .
19 He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises .
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