Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [conj] [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 | The realisation , which came to her and the unmistakable clarity of truth , was quite a shock . |
| 8 | However , it seemed to me that an insurmountable problem presented itself : I had no qualifications . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I said then that it seemed to me that the Consolidated Fund Bill would provide an opportunity to debate it — possibly at some length . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seemed to her that the long war had been a form of imprisonment for the spirit as well as the body . |
| 20 | Many aspects of the post-conciliar debate seemed simply , and not surprisingly , to have passed him by — they seemed to him but the fashionable irrelevancies of a West that had had it rather too good , yet dangerous temptations too . |
| 21 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 26 | The nation 's youngsters took to them and a successful soap was born . |
| 27 | It appeared to me that the only thing he had never mastered was paper hanging . |
| 28 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 29 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 30 | While they walked she explained to him that no other boy in the whole of England could even hope to own a bomber jacket like his . |