Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] to i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ That is an aspect that had not occurred to me , ’ Briant said , and the angry color that had blotched his narrow cheeks receded . |
| 4 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 5 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 6 | It had n't occurred to me that Sarah and John might not be alone , but here , now , I would have to be introduced and explained away somehow . |
| 7 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 8 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 9 | The idea of its hurting or not hurting had n't occurred to me before , but now he mentioned it , it did seem preferable that it should n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Why no , it had n't occurred to me to propose . ’ |
| 11 | It had n't occurred to me to feel frightened of him then . |
| 12 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 13 | For one thing , although I was ready for the challenge of the theories of life and death in Re:Joyce , it had n't occurred to me how many references there were to fathers , including a beautiful sequence in the sketch ‘ First Flight ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It had n't occurred to me , ’ Sabine admitted . |
| 15 | Now it had n't occurred to me to do that because I never had kiddiwinks . |