Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it struck me that there was a flaw in the reasoning that had concentrated police inquiries on this upper part of the tidal Thames — or rather , not so much that there was a flaw in what had been worked out , but that the reasoning was incomplete . |
| 2 | And I should , well it struck me that they were there for good and all . |
| 3 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 4 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet it damaged me and was the cause of reckless behaviour with consequences as far reaching as now . ’ |
| 5 | It was nothing really , nothing at all , yet it devastated me and affected me more profoundly than any previous or subsequent event . |
| 6 | As he said , ‘ I am not an irreligious man and I am not an immoral man and therefore it struck me that it would be offensive . |