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

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1 I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England .
2 Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 ‘ I did n't know it at the time .
5 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 .
6 Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks .
7 She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down .
8 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 .
9 I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants
10 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 .
11 No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that .
12 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 .
13 Julie , 24 yesterday , said : ‘ I always loved him , I just did n't realise it at the time . ’
14 Though he did n't realise it at the time , cricket was his life and consuming interest .
15 He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises .
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