Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hints and intimations which it conveyed to her stretched far , far away , into the past and the future , and she had a sudden , piercing , painfully beautiful vision of a life where men with book shops called upon friends for the pleasure of society , and quarrelled with those friends upon topics as elevated , as unworldly and as magnificent as the Labour Party . |
| 2 | The scent of incense seemed to have intensified , but it smelled to him overlaid with a sickly , more sinister smell , and the silence was n't absolute . |
| 3 | It led to him admitting to ‘ tanking ’ matches and coming close to defaulting with antics right out of John McEnroe 's repertoire . |
| 4 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 5 | It occurred to her to wonder where the money came from to support the style . |
| 6 | After the first , it occurred to her to wonder if she ought to offer to leave . |
| 7 | Suddenly it occurred to me to wonder if this was her real reason for refusing to discuss Red Leland . |
| 8 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |
| 9 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 10 | Tallboy himself was not without sympathy for this apocalyptic vision but it occurred to him to wonder who Jefferson thought the forces of justice were . |
| 11 | ‘ But you did n't even consult me , ’ said Ken reproachfully when presently it occurred to him to ask what she 'd called the baby , and Wendy told him . |
| 12 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 13 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 14 | With its egalitarian tradition of periodic redistribution of the land it seemed to them to provide a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition to socialism . |
| 15 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 16 | It seemed to he enjoying the water that somehow or other had seeped through , and I often wonder what would have happened to me if that black scorpion had indeed swung its deadly tail backwards and on to me . |
| 17 | It fell to him to change the look of advertising for a well-known brand of cigarettes . |
| 18 | Included in episcopal temporalities were not only the advowsons which he possessed in his own right by virtue of the endowments of his bishopric but also those which it fell to him to exercise by default of the usual patron and the appointments to the cathedral chapter , two categories of patronage which he exercised by virtue of his spiritual authority over the diocese , not because of any land which he held . |
| 19 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 20 | Since eyesight requires that I do most of the close-up camera work , it fell to me to film the creature crawling slowly across Lorne 's fingers . |
| 21 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 22 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 23 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 24 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 25 | ‘ I begged a bed at my brother 's place — a room just a carpet away from you was much too close , the state I was in , ’ he confessed , and , while her pride recovered by leaps and bounds at his confession , ‘ Have you any idea , woman , what it did to me to return to that hotel to find you gone ? ’ |
| 26 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 27 | Do you know what it did to me to strike you like that ? |
| 28 | Well it had to I suppose . |