Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |
| 2 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 3 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 4 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 5 | Stephen drove south by the main road and as he came through Goughdale it occurred to him that the yellow Volkswagen might still be there . |
| 6 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 7 | If I say to you that the typical buyer of your product is the wife of a coal miner , living in Yorkshire , with three children under ten , with a council flat , no car but a colour TV , you can start to deduce a lot about her way of life and , perhaps , her approach to the sort of product you have to sell . |
| 8 | It does n't matter to them that the so-called ‘ Stars ’ setting out next week on a gruelling four-month tour are no such thing . |
| 9 | The full package will be made available to you as soon as you can confirm to us that the other material areas of uncertainty in your offer have been resolved . |
| 10 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 11 | However , it seemed to me that an insurmountable problem presented itself : I had no qualifications . |
| 12 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that the matrimonial question could have been dealt with more sympathetically and with greater understanding , as perhaps Winston Churchill could have handled it . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the warm and welcoming hospitality of the Undercroft was the ‘ heart ’ of the whole enterprise , while , of course , the prayers for a hungry world said every day in the Chapel , were its ‘ soul ’ . |
| 16 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 17 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 18 | She was no naturalist , but it seemed to her that every living thing around her was controlled in some way , by some — force : prevented from over-breeding , over-growing . |
| 19 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 20 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 21 | It seemed to her that the only thing worth doing was to walk deep into those glades , far away from everything ; she thought of lingering by the streams and watching the sunlight move , in silence . |
| 22 | It seemed to her that the long war had been a form of imprisonment for the spirit as well as the body . |
| 23 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 24 | Special needs again we 've highlighted , we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm it 's a notional amount , clearly we ca n't tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads , they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time . |
| 25 | In a similar vein , Clara Malraux who spent several months in the company of Nizan in Moscow in 1934 , recalls that Nizan 's hopes for the creation of " new values " , a " new man " in Soviet society were not fulfilled : " It seemed to us that the new man had not yet emerged " . |
| 26 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 27 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 28 | ‘ It did not occur to them that the wrong drug had been introduced not by accident but deliberately . |
| 29 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |
| 30 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |