Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
| 2 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 3 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 4 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 5 | The tragedy is that Pilate still rejected the Lord Jesus , although his loved one appealed to him not to do so . |
| 6 | The Chapman I knew and observed over a decade and more seemed to me never to have outgrown his background , his appetites , his ambitions or his selfishness . |
| 7 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 8 | ‘ I vowed to myself not to do this yet , but there 's something about you that melts my sternest resolutions . ’ |
| 9 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the chief constable of the West Riding and one of his policemen wrote to me recently to say that there are no outstanding matters with the Home Office and that they welcome the £3.16 million to fight crime and the refurbishment and establishment of new police stations in Bradford , Leeds and Pontefract ? |
| 10 | He motioned to them when to kneel , to stand , to be seated , when to take the ring , the gold and silver , to ‘ repeat these words after me' . |
| 11 | Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that . |