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Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her .
2	It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood .
3	It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own .
4	‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’
5	It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby .
6	It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
7	It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered .
8	It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy .
9	They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound .
10	We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her .
11	It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time .
12	‘ It came to me in a moment .
13	It came to me in a flash .
14	It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends .
15	Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto .
16	She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance .
17	It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him .
18	Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement .
19	It came to him in a flash .
20	It came to him in a flash .
21	It came to him in the small hours .
22	Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman .
23	It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant .
24	It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness .
25	It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions .
26	It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm .
27	The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there .
28	‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time .
29	Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building .
30	It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity .