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How to use occur to in a sentence

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It didn't seem to occur to him that it might be possible to be a thorough and fair teacher without denigrating your pupil.
Did it ever, in your infinite pig-headedness, occur to you that it's not up to you who I go out with?
Listen to our President invoking a deity or prayer in every one of his speeches, and maybe an answer will occur to you.
Even with these corrections, major changes need to occur to improve our health system and address the above problems.
But it did not occur to me that there could be a mistake, that he could be innocent, let alone the victim of a frame-up.
Television involved the sort of fudges and compromises that simply wouldn't occur to her.
Like other hydrocarbons with double bonds, addition reactions can occur to change the double bonds to single bonds.
The idea began to occur to me that maybe, in all likelihood, I wasn't all that different from them.
It's not as if the idea of writing a book wouldn't occur to a person without the prodding of a literary agent.
Although I've made a will, it didn't even occur to me at the time to leave anything to charity.
The girl was visiting relatives in Manchester and it did not occur to her to travel without her scaly friend.
It is not surprising that such an idea would occur to a writer in the Hispanic world.
The idea of putting it online did occur to me, but I don't know if I'd actually do it.
So he would just throw himself into his collar and it would never occur to him to jib or give up.
The fact that real terrorists tend not to send letters before they plant bombs seemed not to occur to officials.
It didn't occur to us to wonder what they thought of us, which might have been a mercy.
It doesn't seem to occur to her that the real reason is because of her disgusting apologias for mass murder.
Teeth subject to intrusive luxation have been intruded into the alveolar bone, which may occur to the point that the teeth are not visible.
Such basic irritations do not even occur to us when skating across smooth manuscript paper with a ballpoint pen.
Damage can occur to the basal ganglia or to the frontal lobes which control initiation of speech, causing mutism when damaged.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These remarks occur to us as we are now to follow the fortunes of the remaining three of the quaternity.
It did not occur to him to go on acting, to pretend astonishment or incomprehension.
Of course, such a change is far more likely to occur to a ring stone than to a turquoise mounted in some more protected situation.
He might have played it safe by taking it over the line for a touchback, but the idea didnt occur to him.
Did it ever occur to you that it must be disagreeable to Watch to have such an appendage to his tail?
It did not occur to her to question his right to be on Mrs. Camp's premises.
It never seemed to occur to her that any of her rulings might be questioned.
The situation became so unendurable that the thought of suicide began to occur to her.
Not yet did it occur to him to place himself at the nodus of discovery and possession.
What did occur to me was an argument, at least to my mind, in disproof of the efficacy of this precaution.
Did it dimly occur to him that the principle of this reserve was self-control and not self-effacement?
Did it ever occur to you that our little Judy might make a fair actress, Norn?
It did not occur to him that this fearlessness was founded upon experience and knowledge.
Begin at the beginning, and make your entries precisely as they occur to you in unordered sequence.
It did not occur to her that possibly this suffering might have consequences which she did not foresee.
But then it did indeed occur to me that maybe I could make use of the gimp.
For one moment, indeed, the idea did occur to March that this was the wild man.
It did not occur to me as possible that any one could discover the means by which I made Siva speak.
Does it occur to you that Mr. Bordman is nagging himself to achieve the inconceivable?
He did not want anything to occur to spoil the grandness of his proposed spread.
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