Example sentences of "[coord] it dawned on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 2 | He was ruthless , arrogant , a man who casually did just as he pleased and to hell with the consequences , and it dawned on her that she was in dangerously close proximity to him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was going all right , but now it wo n't go at all , ’ she added more slowly , as she struggled for composure and it dawned on her that with a GB plate stuck on the back of her car that it would n't take a genius to work out that she was probably English . |
| 4 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 5 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |