Example sentences of "occur [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 2 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 6 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 7 | It never occurred to her until the Sunday evening that it might have been herself . |
| 8 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 9 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 10 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |
| 11 | Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate 's greatest popularity . |
| 12 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 13 | It is sometimes worth telling your audience at the beginning : ‘ Many questions may occur to you in the course of this report . |
| 14 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 15 | The thought had hardly occurred to me before the diver , with a weird-sounding cry , left the water in a noisy take-off , and flew seawards in alarm . |
| 16 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 17 | Do n't expect the various parts of solutions to problems to occur to you in the " right " order . |
| 18 | You should jot questions down as they occur to you during the talk . |