Example sentences of "[coord] it never [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 2 | Provided she could buy anything she wanted , when she wanted — and it never occurred to her to do otherwise — Louise was happy . |
| 3 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 4 | I mean , I did n't think , Well , he could float in space , and it never occurred to me to ask where Sooty himself had come from , or the wand , but I was already heading towards not believing , I suppose . |
| 5 | You stood in the dark watching the glow and the flare of fireworks , and it never occurred to the other people to invite you in , and you could n't ask . |
| 6 | And it never did at the right |
| 7 | ‘ We may have only won 1–0 , but it never looked as if we would lose . |
| 8 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 9 | ‘ They all knew I was pregnant , but it never seemed to be something they took into consideration , ’ Lynda Coral recalls . |
| 10 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 11 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 12 | There were many openings they might have exploited , but it never occurred to them to do so . |
| 13 | There used to be guns in the house , of course , but it never occurred to me to look if they were still there . |
| 14 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of this period Glass says ; ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 17 | ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 18 | But it never worked for me . |