Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year the time devoted to it and the importance attached to it , especially on television , seems to increase . |
| 2 | ‘ Actually — actually , that was the first time it occurred to me that no one was designing clothes — beautiful , well-tailored clothes — for real women . |
| 3 | ‘ It occurred to me that a golf-club can be a pretty lethal weapon . ’ |
| 4 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |
| 5 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |
| 6 | It occurred to me that the minions Kruger had entrusted with the task of feeding me to Heckle and Jeckle had been careless . |
| 7 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 8 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 9 | Sounds like egg custard ; - ) It occurred to me that the FEEL of a kit can have an influence directly on the players . |
| 10 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 11 | Given the arrival of his fiancée , it occurred to her that the question was inappropriately personal . |
| 12 | It occurred to her that the depths of her pain were tinged by guilt . |
| 13 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 21 | The realisation , which came to her and the unmistakable clarity of truth , was quite a shock . |
| 22 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 23 | But the idea came to nothing because the British would not cooperate . |
| 24 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 25 | She recalled to herself that the circumstances of their visit had deprived them of an opportunity to examine the ancient willow tree sprung from a plank of Noah 's Ark . |
| 26 | It seemed to me that no one really took us seriously , or perhaps both the Cutter Service and the Investigation Division were still getting their acts together . |
| 27 | However , it seemed to me that an insurmountable problem presented itself : I had no qualifications . |
| 28 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 29 | It seemed to me that the world of pop music , which I worshipped , was there to be altered and corrected . ’ |
| 30 | It seemed to me that the Quirkes gloried in the poetry of paganism , but were not true pagans , eager to propitiate feared gods with flame and sacrifice . |