Of this the following example just now occurs to my mind.

I have waited for the matter to occur naturally to your mind.

These questions are not really explicitly stated, but they may well occur to a reader's mind.

His words have often occurred to my mind since, and they seem as good to me now as at the time when he uttered them.

Having heard this awkward and malicious statement, a thought occurred to my mind that I must bring out what the truth is.

Although it did not occur to her tight, frozen mind, he was far too careful to appear.

Such a possibility would simply not occur to her mind.

It really did occur to my newborn mind that people could not have done it.

The idea that at once occurred to his mind was, "Are we so sure there are no natives on this island after all?"

It was a question no nice girl could outright ask, but one that couldn't help occurring to her mind.