Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 2 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 3 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 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 n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 9 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 12 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't feel anything at the time , ’ he continued . |
| 21 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 22 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 23 | Indeed , I probably did n't understand her at the time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 27 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that . |