Example sentences of "[vb past] to he [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
5 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
6 | 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 . |