Example sentences of "it [verb] not [verb] to me " in BNC.

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1 Its the twelfth of May and it has n't got to me .
2 It do n't matter to me , I 'm not bothered , it 's just , it 's just me and you should have this , look , it 's his money , I 'm not bothered , I 've not
3 It did not appeal to me , but when the preacher advanced to the platform and prayed , there was a transformation …
4 It did not occur to me .
5 I had not realised — it did not occur to me … ’
6 I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact .
7 It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems .
8 Well they were they were coloured , well it did n't matter to me .
9 It did n't appeal to me ( I do n't like cold water or caves — at least that 's my excuse , the boys said I chickened out ! ) but the others really enjoyed it .
10 But it did n't happen to me .
11 It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take .
12 ‘ No , ’ said the old fellow blandly , ‘ it did n't occur to me .
13 This time it did n't occur to me to be frightened .
14 ‘ She wo n't come to the country , ’ I said — pretending that it did n't occur to me that there were other ways .
15 I had never heard of otter hunting and it did n't occur to me that there might be such a sport .
16 I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time .
17 Strangely enough , it did n't occur to me as being odd until I saw my mother frantically spraying the room one day .
18 I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there .
19 It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things .
20 It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early .
21 He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other .
22 ‘ Oh , I knew theirs was n't an entirely happy marriage , that there were quarrels , but it did n't occur to me that the cause lay outside the marriage .
23 I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me before . ’
24 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
25 It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way .
26 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
27 It did n't seem to me you were quite so passive . ’
28 that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible
29 Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about .
30 ‘ Why , Wilson , ’ Mrs Browning said , opening her eyes wide , ‘ it had not occurred to me , nor I am sure to my husband , to think Ferdinando might not go with us .
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