Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pleasure comes from a different source : ‘ I am obviously very conscious of what my forebears achieved and therefore it matters to me that the business has survived , remained independent and has grown . ’ |
| 2 | The item went well , and it was reported to me that the celebrity was very pleased with my contribution . |
| 3 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 5 | Given the arrival of his fiancée , it occurred to her that the question was inappropriately personal . |
| 6 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 7 | It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated . |
| 8 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 9 | Occasionally people say to me that the Government are seeking to turn health care into a business . |
| 10 | Brothers and sisters , I say to you that the message that must leave this Conference is one that says to all trade unionists , we will fight any oppressive legislation used against us . |
| 11 | ’ They say to you that the way to become a really good actor is to tell them everything about yourself , tell them all your fears and insecurities . |
| 12 | It occurs to me that the firm 's international links can not be over-emphasised . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 16 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the question she asked had been simmering in her for some time . |
| 18 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 19 | It seemed to me that the swap file should reside on an uncompressed drive to gain maximum speed benefits — Windows can be slow enough without hampering its performance any further . |
| 20 | But abruptly it seemed to me that the moment should have meaning , even if it were to my discredit . |
| 21 | It seemed to me that the world of pop music , which I worshipped , was there to be altered and corrected . ’ |
| 22 | It seemed to me that the house had a look of gentle triumph . |
| 23 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 24 | Much as she liked him , much as she would miss his companionship , it seemed to her that the relationship had reached a dead end . |
| 25 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 26 | It seemed to her that the world could not possibly contain a more boring room . |
| 27 | It seemed to her that the reason the Jews of Cork got on so well with their Catholic neighbours was because they were actually poles apart . |
| 28 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 29 | It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’ |
| 30 | It seemed to him that the spirit of the dead man was very near to him . |