Example sentences of "thing that struck " in BNC.
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1 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
2 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
3 | ‘ Things that struck me . ’ |
4 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
5 | One of the first things that struck troops fresh to the Verdun battlefield was the fearful stench of putrefaction ; ‘ so disgusting that it almost gives a certain charm to the odour of gas shells ’ . |
6 | The first thing that struck the other dons who lived in the Castle was his oddness . |
7 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
8 | The first thing that struck me about Dana 's poems was his incredibly tiny script , an almost minuscule handwriting that was often difficult to decipher . |
9 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
10 | That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance . |
11 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
12 | Cliff Bastin said of his celebrated partner : ‘ The first thing that struck me about Alex was his terrific self-confidence . |
13 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
14 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
15 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
16 | The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction . |
17 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
18 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
19 | ‘ It 's just the principle of the thing that struck me . ’ |
20 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |
21 | The nineteen twenty six strike , the o the thing that struck me most of all was , they were going to out the railway men . |
22 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
23 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
24 | The thing that struck me most about the room was its symmetry . |
25 | ‘ The thing that struck one about him was the fantastic charisma and this bright-eyed determination , which he has maintained to this very day , ’ recalled Graham . |
26 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
27 | with this film it will be , you know , compulsory , you wo n't be able to make that choice , erm and the other one , the other thing that struck me just from one of the particular extracts of , of people standing on top of this cliff , erm is , is the way that the importance of , in something like a film where it 's , you know , it 's done for good , you know the importance of having an actual creative writer |
28 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
29 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |