Example sentences of "struck [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 2 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 3 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 4 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 5 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 6 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 7 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 8 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 9 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 10 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |