Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 6 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 15 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 16 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 17 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 18 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 19 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
| 20 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 21 | Yeah I mean if it 's somebody wanting to move a three-piece suite and just a few books , no , we 'd do it at the time . |
| 22 | I 'll do it , I 'll do it in the time . |
| 23 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 24 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 25 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 26 | You 'll believe it by the time you leave here — ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 30 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |