Example sentences of "it have [adv] occur " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while it has doubtless occurred to the company 's editors that such a policy goes some way to covering their asses in the event of attack by ‘ patriotic ’ critics , the benefit to the viewer is no less valuable for that . |
| 2 | Confident in our own superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom , it has rarely occurred to us to question how other creatures perceive the world . |
| 3 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 4 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 5 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 6 | It had even occurred to me . |
| 7 | He put the fleeting temptation aside , surprised that it had even occurred to him . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 9 | ‘ Come early and leave early , ’ coaxed Meredith , and as though it had just occurred to him wondered aloud whether it would be a good idea to include young Harbour . |
| 10 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 11 | Loved by Fenna and by Rachel it had never occurred to her to consider herself unlovable , but now she needed a counter-weight in the real world , and her mother would never be that for her . |
| 12 | He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have . |
| 13 | It had never occurred to Joni that on the cross Jesus was unable to move , virtually paralysed . |
| 14 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 15 | It had never occurred as a scenario in his fantasies . |
| 16 | The transaction described in it had never occurred , though smaller versions had . |
| 17 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 18 | In my analysis of the social and intellectual divisions at the party , it had never occurred to me to question where I stood myself . |
| 19 | She had suspected as much , though it had never occurred to her that Greg 's death had been anything but an accident . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , for it had never occurred to me not to . |
| 21 | It had never occurred to me that so many people would be interested in me and Dawn . |
| 22 | It had never occurred to her to get any sort of job . |
| 23 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 24 | It had never occurred to me . |
| 25 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 26 | And help was forthcoming , for there was a whole row of somehow familiar books , and the name on the back , she could just decipher it , was Candida something , why yes , of course , Candida Gray , she saw it with a flash of inspiration , for it had never occurred to her to look for a surname other than the one that she already knew . |
| 27 | Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her . |
| 28 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 29 | It had never occurred to Howarth that the six senior staff sitting awkwardly around his table in the candlelight , unmellowed even by the wine , would see the whole occasion as an elaborate gastronomic charade designed to demonstrate his social and intellectual superiority . |
| 30 | ‘ It had never occurred to me . |