Example sentences of "[verb] it at [art] 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 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 15 | It 's only one that can do it at a time we all have a role to play , we 're all part of that body are n't we that we 've looked at in some , what a lovely description it is , and some of us do n't look quite as good as the other part do we ? |
| 16 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 23 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 26 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 27 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 28 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 29 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 30 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |