Example sentences of "have never occurred [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't like to say that such an idea has never occurred to him , but , if it has , I suspect he is having second thoughts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had never occurred to Joni that on the cross Jesus was unable to move , virtually paralysed . |
| 5 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In my analysis of the social and intellectual divisions at the party , it had never occurred to me to question where I stood myself . |
| 8 | She had suspected as much , though it had never occurred to her that Greg 's death had been anything but an accident . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , for it had never occurred to me not to . |
| 10 | It had never occurred to me that so many people would be interested in me and Dawn . |
| 11 | This idea had never occurred to us . |
| 12 | It had never occurred to her to get any sort of job . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had never occurred to me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It had never occurred to me . |
| 21 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The though had never occurred to me before . |
| 24 | Trying it again had never occurred to me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But when she had made her reckless decision to sail with him , it had never occurred to her that the smooth , sunny Mediterranean of holiday brochures might have a darker , more dangerous face . |
| 28 | ‘ What I had n't considered , ’ he said softly , ‘ what had never occurred to me , was that I might fall in love with you . ’ |
| 29 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 30 | But obviously it was an idea that had never occurred to him before , and his mind would take a little while to accommodate it . |