Example sentences of "occurred to [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 3 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that it might after all have really been a child , from one of the cottages at the bay to the east ; someone who had come to help Maria . |
| 5 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 6 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It occurred to her that it might be wise to go through the pockets ; her father 's garment yielded an old penny and a broken pipe . |
| 9 | It occurred to her that it could have been Antoinette herself watching them , but she dismissed that almost at once . |
| 10 | Later it occurred to him that it was lucky he had Moreau to vouch for him , otherwise his transparent interest in the fräulein might have made him suspect . |
| 11 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 12 | It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall . |
| 13 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |