Example sentences of "[pers pn] was struck by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She replied ‘ simply : ‘ One day reading the Bible I was struck by the simple and loving demands of Jesus on his disciples and the intolerable demands of those who claimed to be Christ for me . |
| 2 | When Mack got that Livesey case , I was struck by the name of the cabby . |
| 3 | The first time I saw Mlle de Montijo was at a reception given by Princess Mathilde for the Duchess of Hamilton ; I was struck by the beauty , the grace of this foreign girl , and I asked who she was . |
| 4 | Listening to the Finale in particular , I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance . |
| 5 | Glancing through a book I wrote for the Daily Telegraph in 1970 , I was struck by the gloom with which many men and women — but especially men — viewed the prospect of what could be their happiest and most satisfying years . |
| 6 | ‘ I was struck by the atmosphere there ’ says Nigel . |
| 7 | Talking to colleagues from other establishments at a conference some years later , I was struck by the similarities in their early beginnings — often in a portacabin or separate annexe from the main college building , or in accommodation previously occupied by a school . |
| 8 | Editor , — I was struck by the subtitle of Penelope Campling 's editorial on working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse : ‘ Much can be learnt from what goes wrong . ’ |
| 9 | Despite the familiar fears about the implementation of community care — not enough money , buck passing , and bed blocking — I was struck by the optimism of social services staff . |
| 10 | ‘ I was struck by the atmosphere there ’ says Nigel . |
| 11 | I was struck by the fact that no one referred to how enjoyable it is to drink alcohol and that no one mentioned that in our culture it is absolutely normal to consume alcohol to excess on some occasions and that most people will have experienced the effects of over-indulgence at some time . |
| 12 | ‘ I was struck by the fact that there were no spokes , the whole centre is open . ’ |
| 13 | I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do . |
| 14 | " I was struck by the good health and spirits of your little one . |
| 15 | Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable . |
| 16 | I was struck by the fact that Cornwall seems to be overspending on roads and underspending on its schools . |
| 17 | I was struck by the Minister 's litany of the hours kept by the Committee considering the Local Government Finance Bill because I served on the Committee . |
| 18 | I was struck by the words of Graham Bishop of Salomon Brothers in a recent publication on the importance of the no-bail-out rule . |
| 19 | I was struck by the fact that he was a person of very little confidence . |
| 20 | But I was struck , I was struck by the frame . |
| 21 | I was struck by the fact that in one of the dialogues of Plato , Plato gets very worried about the notion of beauty , because he thinks beauty is something which is beautiful . |
| 22 | I was struck by the fact that in one of the dialogues of Plato , Plato gets very worried about the notion of beauty , because he thinks beauty is something which is beautiful . |
| 23 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 24 | I must admit I was struck by the way in which the debate was discussed . |
| 25 | It had been over a year since Katherine had seen him and again she was struck by the magnetism of those coal dark eyes , the indolence of his gestures as he took her hand and playfully brought it to his lips . |
| 26 | Approaching the desk , she was struck by the painting hanging above it . |
| 27 | Being trained , Wolfe knew what to do but she was struck by the sense of panic that engulfs any parent when a child is suddenly threatened with pain or in this case , death . |
| 28 | Mr Phillipson wrote : ‘ Hancock recalls that in the less traumatic moments he was struck by the rich red colour of some of the massive formations as they slipped by barely a metre from his wing-tips . ’ |
| 29 | For Brace , who engaged only in jogging before he was struck by the marathon boom , it will be his 26th venture over the 26 miles 385 yards course . |
| 30 | He was struck by the discovery of a version of the enzyme which previously had only been reported in a clinical isolate of Salmonella typhimurium from New Zealand |