Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I occurred to me that all the pleasure of snooker comes either in anticipation or retrospect . |
| 2 | It just occurred to me that this was the day I was not meant to see ’ |
| 3 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 7 | Then it occurred to her that this new plan would require two letters — this first and an explanatory note to Edwin , which was tiresome . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Seems it never occurred to them that this applies to both engineers . |
| 10 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wealth came to him and much of it he invested in shipping . |
| 13 | Many of the leading actors of that day came to him and some of them , such as Sir Henry Irving , used to have his professional help between acts of their plays . |
| 14 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 18 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it seemed to me that most of us were just acting . |
| 24 | He seemed to me and many others , I think we were in common agreement , most of the people that I was associated with , that Ni Bevan was the only man that really cared you know , he really cared . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |