Example sentences of "it never [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It never crossed her mind — that was the bad part of the mistake — that for the prince as well the marriage could not be an end in itself .
2 It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours .
3 It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight .
4 It never crossed my mind to wear ‘ slacks ’ at a university in the late 1950s , still less that a girl could go to one of the ancient Oxbridge men 's colleges .
5 He said : ‘ It never crossed my mind when I moved to London that Ballymena would lose their Division One status .
6 He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age .
7 Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance .
8 I never wanted to do anything , it never entered my head to do anything else .
9 I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head .
10 I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on .
11 Such was the austerity of his habits that it never entered his head himself to have any kind of formal dinner in which I could join .
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