Example sentences of "[vb past] to he [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 2 | After he had taken them , it occurred to him that the aspirin was possibly a stimulant , not a sedative , and he read the details on the bottle morosely for ten or fifteen minutes , thinking now and then of emetics and vomitoriums and wondering how the Romans did it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 5 | It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated . |
| 6 | His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress . |
| 7 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 10 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 11 | When he turned to look , it seemed to him that the hospital was moving away from him like a phantom ship , butting through the September mists . |
| 12 | On visiting Gill 's Lap pine clump , it seemed to him that the sound of the wind in the trees was very similar to the sound of a rushing stream and also to that of a roaring fire . |
| 13 | Although the numerous rivers flowing from the Carpathian Mountains offered Conrad abundant lines of defence against any Russian invasion , it seemed to him that the sooner the Austrians attacked , the more auspicious the prospects , since they would shortly be heavily outnumbered . |
| 14 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 15 | It seemed to him that the spirit of the dead man was very near to him . |
| 16 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
| 17 | This indicated to him that the tension in his neck was causing the other two problems . |
| 18 | He held out his arms then , and because she hurt so much , because she wanted to be a little girl again , she went to him and the tears came . |
| 19 | It mattered to him that the people of the south were of ancient lineage , far beyond anything that could have been imagined by the Americans he had known in New York , back in the Tens and Twenties . |
| 20 | The dog was lying there last night and Patricia said something to him , I do n't know what she said to him but the look on his face . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While they walked she explained to him that no other boy in the whole of England could even hope to own a bomber jacket like his . |
| 23 | He had been frightened until Ivan explained to him that the sun went to bed like everyone else and would be up and shining for them in the morning . |