Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pron] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 2 | Then it occurred to her that this new plan would require two letters — this first and an explanatory note to Edwin , which was tiresome . |
| 3 | Now that she was actually out here in the dark , on her own , it occurred to her that this really was n't a good idea at all . |
| 4 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 5 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 8 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 9 | The misery of these people was indescribable when it seemed to them that all their efforts would be cancelled by war between their country and Germany . |
| 10 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 11 | He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything . |
| 12 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 15 | But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting . |
| 16 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 17 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 18 | And when he said that he could n't agree with me , but please , please could n't we let the matter drop since nothing we said or did could alter the course of events , I was enraged because it seemed to me that this really was his attitude , he wanted a quiet life , not to be involved . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 21 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 22 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 23 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 24 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that this Morris fellow and my brother were in this thing together ? ’ he said softly . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry I I okay you book the player but it it appears to me that that forwards just do n't want to stay on their feet or even try to stay on their feet . |
| 26 | It appears to me that any articles published in a program probably would n't be the ones with , well shall we say ‘ less than polite ’ , references to other clubs/players … and even if they were they could be censored so as to be acceptable to the general public . |
| 27 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 28 | On the contrary , it seems to me that such a drastic gesture would fit well with your character . |
| 29 | It seems to me that all that we would be doing would be substituting one area for another in effect in terms of where that development is attracted from . |
| 30 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |