11.   A thought struck Luce, and she stared at him, wondering.

12.   Then a new thought struck her and she glanced up at him again.

13.   He stopped, as though a sudden thought had struck him.

14.   I mean a thought strikes me erm, you know, maybe this is very much to do with the war.

15.   Q. While walking in Central Park recently, the thought struck me that trees and shrubs take whatever winter throws at them.

16.   The thought struck him again this week as he faced an unusual criminal defendant in federal district court in Manhattan.

17.   The thought struck about the vast difference between America and not only Germany, but many other countries as well.

18.   The thought struck me when I went to the opening of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas last March.

19.   Morgan Boerjesson, the man behind the idea, told the daily Hallands Nyheter that the thought struck him while he was tending his garden.