Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not occurred " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 2 | Although bleeding and perforation have been feared complications in non-operated patients they have not occurred in this series or in others . |
| 3 | It had not occurred to us that this ranging survey of the idioms of English and incidentally French verse had been no more than a ‘ prologue ’ — and to what , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 6 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 7 | The final stage in the experimental procedure would have been vacuum distillation of the amine , at which point having bis(azide) present would have certainly led to an explosion , even if it had not occurred earlier . |
| 8 | until it had not occurred , they were not there . |
| 9 | It had not occurred to her that the snooping might have been on a more professional level . |
| 10 | The surprised way he had looked at her when she said it suggested that it had not occurred to him before . |
| 11 | It had not occurred to her that my parents simply could not afford the dry-cleaning bills . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 14 | It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening . |
| 15 | It had not occurred to him that he might seem rather out of place in his present dress . |
| 16 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 17 | It had not occurred to him that there would be a place underground where he would be exposed on three sides . |
| 18 | It had not occurred to Richard Branson , even in his wildest dreams , to own an airline . |
| 19 | It had not occurred to him that he was naked , but it did not matter in any case what she thought . |
| 20 | It had not occurred to Melissa that Madame Gebrec would even remember her invitation , let alone wish it to stand , but there was no doubt of her sincerity as she said , ‘ No , not this evening , but another time , please . |
| 21 | But among all these doubts it had not occurred to her that if she got as far as 42b Milvain Street , and rang the bell , Edward would not open the door . |
| 22 | It had not occurred to her to seek for anything else . |
| 23 | It had not occurred to her that her friend might be personally involved in the business . |
| 24 | It had not occurred to her that the newspapers might still be on the trail of Puddephat 's widow . |
| 25 | It had not occurred to her that the car would be vulnerable while parked in Bridget 's front garden . |
| 26 | It had not occurred to him that Jessica 's behaviour might have put a suitor off , more that Parr would want to go and smack her cheeky face , as he would have done . |