Mr. Hurst said the idea had occurred to him several months ago when he needed to find a restaurant in Chelsea.
And the idea had occurred to me that we might enjoy getting up to the same kind of mischief, but when this script came it really took me quite by surprise in the most wonderful way.
Mr. Bourne, a keen watcher of the HBO series "True Blood," said that he realized it could seem as if he was jumping on a "vampire bandwagon," but that the idea had occurred to him as a practical solution.
Obviously, the idea had occurred to the White House before the congressional leadership suggested it, but the small deception was O.K. Washington is very deeply an organization city, and it needs these rituals; a wartime address to a joint session of Congress is the ultimate unscheduled ceremony, and you could feel the comforting effect of the expectation of it.
Hussey reported that when he suggested to Bouvard that the unusual motion of Uranus might be due to the gravitational influence of an undiscovered planet, Bouvard replied that the idea had occurred to him, and that he had corresponded with Peter Andreas Hansen, director of the Seeberg Observatory in Gotha, about the subject.
But given how that leg of his trip turned out, he's probably wishing the boycott idea had occurred to him this time last week.
The idea had occurred to some paleontologists examining fossils of the enormous sauropod tails, which tapered to thin tips.
A few funny ideas have occurred to him, but nothing strong enough to sustain a whole "bit".
Like many useful ideas, this has occurred to lots of people, and to the extent that it succeeds, will come to seem normal.
At first it challenges your assumptions very usefully: it can prompt you to try alternatives to old routes you had unthinkingly been using for years; once, at a time of major pile-up near South Mimms, my satnav suggested I drive to a client meeting in Luton by driving the long way (anti-clockwise) around the M25 from Sevenoaks; this idea would never have occurred to me otherwise.
I have no idea whether this had occurred to Michael, but it hadn't occurred to me; it isn't in the book, and should be.
