Example sentences of "[vb past] be struck by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MP vigorously denied assault and said he had been struck by the officer . |
| 2 | A month before he went up in 1897 his father 's first cousin ( and namesake ) had been struck by the lad 's awkward manners , silent gaucherie , unsuitable dress , and down-covered chin ; three years later Edward returned the visit in a colours blazer , accompanied by his wife and his eight-months-old son . |
| 3 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 4 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 5 | However , several people before him — Francis Bacon even — had been struck by the amazing correspondence between the coastlines of the African and South American continents . |
| 6 | On both occasions she had been struck by the contrast between on the one hand the beauty of the Bay itself , the islands , the fine buildings towards Posillipo and on the other the cramped and jumbled desperation of the mean and bustly streets immediately below her . |
| 7 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |
| 8 | She too had been struck by the similarity between the kitten 's fur and her own hair , and Raphael would have been another subtle reminder for the future of Fen . |
| 9 | And he also rejected claims by the policeman and a civilian that they witnessed a soldier being struck by other military personnel to make it appear he had been struck by the car . |
| 10 | FitzRoy had been struck by the peculiar appearance of a group of brownish-black birds living in the islands that resembled finches . |
| 11 | She had been struck by the fact that in June 1873 two hundred Deputes of the French Parliament gathered before the Blessed Sacrament to consecrate their country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . |