Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 4 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
| 5 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 6 | It did not seriously occur to her to approach Canon Wheeler himself . |
| 7 | So it , it did n't really matter to me . |
| 8 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 9 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
| 10 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 11 | It had not previously occurred to Camille that he might . |
| 12 | It had simply not occurred to her to warn her mother that Fen believed … |
| 13 | It had simply never occurred to her that the young woman in a ski jacket with faded jeans tucked into her boots might actually be Hugo Varna 's daughter ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet it had also already proven to be a powerful and flexible tool for tackling complex system building tasks as set out in Bobrow et al ( 1977 ) . |
| 18 | It had never even occurred to her to wonder why the land where the cottage had stood was still empty . |
| 19 | It had never really taken to the concept of death . |
| 20 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |
| 21 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 22 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
| 23 | In all the upset and confusion , it had only just occurred to her that , even if this was a self-imposed discipline , her funds were limited . |