Example sentences of "did [adv] occur to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 2 | Even so young Maggie was not a child to cheat ; it did not occur to her to prise the egg open , only to stay longer in the bath and to forget to take the soap out of the water , when she climbed out herself , pink and skinny . |
| 3 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 4 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 5 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 6 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
| 7 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 8 | He heard evidence from nearly 200 witnesses after the Hillsborough disaster — and ‘ The People 's Game ’ was a phrase which did not occur to him . |
| 9 | It evidently did not occur to them that the people of Auckland felt the same . |
| 10 | It did not occur to her that she valued her relationship with Prince Richard more than the love of her children , and had anyone suggested this to her , she would have been mystified ; such a comparison was impossible . |
| 11 | It did not occur to him to bring his wife with him . |
| 12 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 13 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |
| 14 | It did not occur to him to propose to Emily and assume that he could live off his wife . |
| 15 | She heard his sobbing tale with less sympathy than was its due ; it did not occur to her that she herself , by coming here , had brought about all his troubles and her own . |
| 16 | It did not occur to them that , together , they could overpower the pair . |
| 17 | It did not occur to him that he might also have been frightened . |
| 18 | It did not occur to her until later that she could have asked to touch her daughter or kiss her goodbye , as her instinct urged . |
| 19 | It did not occur to the Jones that , for example , they were now insisting unswervingly on an 8pm bedtime , and that now Olwyn was being rewarded ( the bedtime story ) for making it on time . |
| 20 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 21 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 22 | it did not occur to him that there might be . |
| 23 | She waited for him to offer to help clear it , but that did not occur to him . |
| 24 | After all , if it did not occur to Bohr , Heisenberg and Schrödinger in the twenties it can not be trivially self-evident . |
| 25 | It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole , in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run . |
| 26 | It did not occur to me . |
| 27 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 28 | As he accompanied her out of the hospital and towards his car , it did not occur to Kate to ask how he knew where she was . |
| 29 | It is to be noted that the section only applies where overpayment of rates is not otherwise recoverable , and it plainly did not occur to the House in that case that the overpayment might be recoverable apart from the section . |
| 30 | It did not occur to Marcus to say any of this to Mr Rose . |