Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [that] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalling what I had glimpsed of his relationships with both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth , it occurred to me that this conflict probably characterized all his friendships . |
| 2 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 3 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 4 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 6 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 7 | Certain governments established their own papers and then saw to it that any opposition papers were starved of the advertising they needed in order to stay in business . |