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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] me " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews ,
2	I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa .
3	Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece .
4	‘ It suddenly occurred to me , ’ he says looking back , ‘ what if something serious happens there , or even a hint of something .
5	Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief .
6	It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them .
7	It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them .
8	I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war .
9	And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it .
10	One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . "
11	Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted .
12	Another perhaps occurred to me .
13	‘ It suddenly came to me what they had done .
14	It suddenly came to me .
15	Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias .
16	‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ .
17	He suddenly turned on me .
18	Right , cos it only dawned on me cos the first of September
19	An idea suddenly dawned on me .
20	That first night it suddenly dawned on me that they were there for me .
21	Then it suddenly dawned on me , why Thursday .
22	So after about a couple of bouts , I thought , alright , and it suddenly dawned on me I did n't know how to stop the tractor .
23	When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them .
24	He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ?
25	But she merely looked at me , coldly , and fast-forwarded .
26	‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’
27	He let me go , and only looked at me .
28	" We were approached by a man and woman — a settled couple , I would have said — and as they passed , the woman suddenly spoke to me , calling me by name .
29	She obviously waited for me to prove myself an old toper , but I did not .
30	So said to me yes carry on you 're doing fine you know and he went up and er well he did n't know how to start the poor fellow doing smashing and he said , Well erm imagine this hall , he said , this hall we 're in now as a big cavern underground .