Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [that] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 2 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 3 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 4 | But the architect had agreed with her that it would make the room much lighter and in the end Matthew had assented . |
| 5 | The thought crept into him that it would have been better if there had have been trees outside . |
| 6 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 7 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 8 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 9 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 10 | As her eyes widened he added , ‘ Perhaps now you can understand the reason why I bought it and why it is so important to me that it should succeed ? ’ |
| 11 | It just brings it home to you that it can happen anywhere , ’ said a colleague . |
| 12 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 13 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 14 | And Anna Freud had great difficulty in suggesting to her that it might have happened . |
| 15 | It occurred to her that it could have been Antoinette herself watching them , but she dismissed that almost at once . |
| 16 | ( It occurs to us that it may have been Durfey who sang Aeneas in the school production . |
| 17 | He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System . |