Example sentences of "occur to [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also occurred to me today that perhaps one of us in the Glasgow Office ought to be trained in First Aid . |
| 2 | It occurred to me later that there 's something almost , that there 's a cultural imprint , not to make a pun , of this letterpress image of a page in the structural necessities of locking a page and having even gutters and relatively rectilinear forms that creates a feeling of reliability , security and permanence . |
| 3 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 4 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had forgotten to tell Urquhart what had gone on during the day , especially what Marek Nowak had told her and the disastrous arrest of Taczek . |
| 5 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 6 | It occurred to her suddenly that she found the cloak-and-dagger element in all this vaguely disturbing , and totally unnecessary . |
| 7 | It occurred to him forcibly that he would have no objection at all to extending this romantic episode further . |
| 8 | It occurred to him now that Blackbeard had got on his tracks in the fog . |
| 9 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 10 | Wife to an elderly duke , he could have added , and his third wife at that ; it did occur to him fleetingly that she , perhaps , had something to gain , a brief recapture of life and youth before it was too late . |
| 11 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 12 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 13 | It had never seemed to occur to anyone else that she might still do so , and part of her self-loathing was due to the fact that she did n't know . |