Example sentences of "[coord] it struck [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later , I spotted the young Mr Cardinal not far away , still standing on his own , and it struck me the young gentleman might be feeling somewhat overawed in the present company . |
| 2 | And it struck me that it 's those who believe in cock-ups who are ready to believe anything . |
| 3 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 4 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 5 | And it struck her again , even more forcefully than before , that Alexander Vass was a hard man to fathom . |
| 6 | Once , years before , she 'd visited her friend Julie in a psychiatric unit and it struck her that a lot of the people wanted to be there . |
| 7 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 8 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 9 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 10 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 11 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 12 | But it struck him as unlikely . |
| 13 | Oliver started to ask whether they could not drop it and go home , but it struck him that he was in a precarious position and he kept quiet . |
| 14 | But it struck me then how very wise he was to keep his sexy side so firmly battened down on duty . |
| 15 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |