Example sentences of "it [vb past] not [adv] occur to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 2 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
| 3 | It did not seriously occur to her to approach Canon Wheeler himself . |
| 4 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 5 | It had not previously occurred to Camille that he might . |
| 6 | Erm and the erm I saw John at lunchtime and I mentioned it to him because he , he said that , it had n't even occurred to me till then , because he said I 'm concentrating on the surveying side and I thought ha ha ha to you my friend . |
| 7 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
| 8 | For all the week that Timothy Gedge had been tormenting them it had n't once occurred to her , which surprised her as she prayed now . |