Example sentences of "it occurred [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 2 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 3 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that perhaps I could invite Erika and Paul out for lunch . ’ |
| 5 | The other day it occurred to me that there are maybe two kinds of intelligence in the world : one that 's very open , that tries to take on everything , and accordingly gets paralysed by choice : another kind that 's narrow , that finds strength focusing on some things and excluding most everything else … |
| 6 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 9 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 10 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 11 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
| 12 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 13 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 14 | Then it occurred to me who Shinko was — his prostitute friend , with whom he conjured Harold Robbins 's positions . |
| 15 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 16 | But then it occurred to me that Auden 's self-perception could have sprung partially from the necessity to conceal his homosexuality from his public . |
| 17 | Suddenly it occurred to me to wonder if this was her real reason for refusing to discuss Red Leland . |
| 18 | ‘ So it occurred to me that you , as my great-uncle 's ghillie , might even have known what his plans were for his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 19 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |
| 20 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 21 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 22 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 23 | After talking to various people it occurred to me that if everyone in this island planted a tree in their lifetime we would achieve something , not least by helping to absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . |
| 24 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |
| 25 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 26 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 27 | As she was pouring the tea it occurred to me that maybe she knew Claudia too . |
| 28 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 29 | It was then that it occurred to me that there was some connection between Jean-Claude 's relationship with Ahmed and Meaulnes 's with Frantz . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that my doctor was only employed to treat the symptoms of our health problems in the same way as our landlord was only treating the symptoms of the dampness . |