Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.

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1 It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’
2 Cos you see , perhaps it did n't get to that teacher , you see , that 's what happens , the letters do n't always get to the right people .
3 own kids have grown up so it does n't matter to them , just live back in days and make you spend your money the way they tell you and live how you they tell you .
4 So it did n't seem to be of any hardship to anybody for for the mother to be involved in er political activity .
5 It was exciting , it was beautiful , but somehow it did n't seem to be all there .
6 The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful .
7 it can be read whenever it does n't have to be read as soon as it 's rel received .
8 Now it does n't have to necessarily be the same subject but in some way it 's a repeated measures , that 's where you .
9 Often it does not occur to them that they can speak up , raise their voices in front of people .
10 Well it does n't belong to us .
11 The first life , well it does n't have to be the man , but if , if you write the application so
12 Well it does n't have to be .
13 No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him .
14 Well they were they were coloured , well it did n't matter to me .
15 Sometimes it does n't pay to be greedy .
16 I do n't want to get Grant into trouble , but until then it does n't go to the fishes .
17 Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind .
18 H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill .
19 But it did , just my , my quick sieve every time we got these there always appeared to be a slot where it did n't seem to me to be worth being open and and operating
20 I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time .
21 I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me before . ’
22 Evidently it did not occur to him that it could also have been a case of the mastery of English becoming a kind of weapon in the mouths of the dispossessed .
23 Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice .
24 But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband .
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