Example sentences of "it have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] he " in BNC.

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1 It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army .
2 He put the fleeting temptation aside , surprised that it had even occurred to him .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen .
5 It had never happened to him in his life before .
6 Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then .
7 It had never happened to him before .
8 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 .
9 Indeed it had never occurred to him to sell bits of Hatherley to keep the paper going any more than he had considered using the profits of the paper , in the years when there were some , to pay for the substantial renovation the house had required .
10 Richard 's Johnson , obedient to the pressed button , came to life at once , and she saw that it had never occurred to him that it might n't .
11 Disappointed that there were no lights showing on Grace — it had never occurred to him that Nenna would not be there tonight — he was turning to walk along the Embankment to Lord Jim when he caught sight of a stranger on Maurice .
12 It had never occurred to him that his daughter might be proud of him .
13 He was aghast ; he had been so immersed in his work , and his late success , that it had hardly occurred to him to notice the conditions in which they lived , the state to which he had reduced Dinah .
14 It had suddenly occurred to him that he might have underestimated Gazzer : he remembered that unexpected defiance , last night , on the Wheel .
15 There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him .
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