Example sentences of "struck her [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 With a calm she knew to be unnatural it struck her that her life was probably at an end .
2 It struck her that they made their money very easily .
3 It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others .
4 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 .
5 Now , however , it struck her that she 'd better not give Patrice an opening , though she was n't quite sure why .
6 ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before .
7 She had thought she was tense last night , but now it struck her that she had n't known what tension was then because she had n't known what Luke could do to her .
8 Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated !
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