Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 2 | The child could not decide whever he wanted a chocolate bar or a scoop of ice cream : it occurred to Nelson to combine the two . |
| 3 | Now it occurred to Alexei to wonder why no one had remarked on the phenomenon before now . |
| 4 | It occurred to Alexei to wonder how many people were party to the arrangement . |
| 5 | It seemed to Watkins to have a role both in laying out the system and in guiding travellers . |
| 6 | It seemed to Wetherfield to follow that where a creditor had proved his debtor 's means , he might have him committed to prison , and that he could then levy on those means , if tangible and available , to obtain payment of what was owed him . |
| 7 | The third requirement grew out of this — namely , as America became more involved in this conflict , so it looked to Britain to send at least a token force to assist in the war in Vietnam , or failing that to give strong diplomatic backing to the United States . |
| 8 | As chairman of the trustees , it fell to Herne to face the parliamentary attack of early 1698 on the fraudulent endorsements of these bills by ( Sir ) Charles Duncombe [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | It fell to Alexander to bear the full brunt of Napoleon 's ambition . |
| 10 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 11 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 12 | It fell to Horne to prepare the resulting North West Highland Memoir ( 1907 ) . |
| 13 | There was a heated argument between the two men which at length it fell to Branson to settle . |
| 14 | erm last year it went to Manchester did n't it ? |
| 15 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 16 | One limitation of the book is that it related to UK names only . |