It simply would not occur to him to think otherwise.
The general - did it never occur to you to think how we got him to come in with us.
Nothing, I reply, but it's fun to learn a little about something it never occurred to you to think of before.
But it never occurred to me to think he was a hallucination.
There seemed to be time, and no reason occurred to either of us to think time would run out.
Why, it just never occurred to me to think of such a thing; I imagined that had all been settled long ago.
It had never really occurred to him to think of buildings as beautiful before.
It never occurs to me to think how something should look.
It never occurred to him to think of what the consequences might be.
But it did not occur to me to think of sexism.