Shopwindows usually bright were dark, and it occurred to him that, of course, people had been flushed onto the sidewalk by the outage.
It suddenly occurred to him that this was an injustice he could address.
Like most Arabs of the time, he was familiar with the stories of Noah, Lot, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus and knew that some people expected the imminent arrival of an Arab prophet, but it never occurred to him that he would be entrusted with this mission.
He said he did not believe his brother planned to throw the shoe, but it might have occurred to him when he was asked to cover the news conference, because his brother changed from foreign-made shoes into Iraqi-made ones beforehand.
Mr De'Ath said it had "never occurred " to him to go to the police.
As I was commiserating with him over our cell phones, it occurred to me that we were both holding up to our ears powerful general-purpose computers.
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Once the FBI had uncovered the evidence for his affair and told him, it probably never occurred for a moment to Gen Petraeus that he might be able to hold on to his job.
On Tuesday morning I explained to the prime minister what had occurred, apologised for it and offered him my resignation, which he accepted.
And it always looked so strange, alert and wondering, as if some crazy impossibility had occurred to him that almost made him laugh.
We linked in concentration, and it occurred to me that the delicacy of the line and the fine movements needed to free it appealed to him the way drawing appealed to him, because of their beauty and precision.
Vivian remembered him making the same gestures with the woman in the store that day, and it occurred to her that she might have misunderstood what she had seen.
"The Home Office has undermined the commissioner from the start by giving him absolutely no powers to act when he views that wrongdoing may have occurred, " it said in a statement.
All this had occurred by the time Dickinson asked him if he was too busy to read her poems, as if it were the most reasonable request in the world.
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