(14) It hit me that I had to thank God and my dad.

(15) I think it hurt him that our brothers did not come home to help.

(16) It just -- it just infuriated me that I finally went out and bought them all awards and gave them awards.

(17) It irked him that he couldn’t spend company funds on a move he thought necessary for the company’s very survival.

(18) Their eyes held, and it irritated him that she showed no shame, or even fear.

(19) It pained him that Chard’s name and his own should be so inextricably linked.

(20) But I know it pleased him that the report had resurfaced.

(21) It puzzled him that fragments of that conversation continued to echo in his mind long after he had left the museum.

(22) It saddened him that he didn’t know what she would have wanted him to do.

(23) As Adam’s talking about this, it strikes me that this is particularly egregious.

(24) It surprised me that I appreciated her compliment as much as I did.

(25) It worried me that I had forgotten.

3. THE “STRIKE” GROUP

These verbs indicate either that an idea occurs to someone, or that they fail to notice something. The noun group usually indicates a human being. In the case of escape, it may be something such as my attention or their notice.

(1) I noticed that he was soaking wet, and for the first time it dawned on me that he had come down across the fields from the hill.

(2) They so obviously enjoyed life, enjoyed the things they did together, that it almost escaped their attention that some people did not approve of the family.

(3) It hit me that I had a choice…

(4) Didn’t it strike you that he was awfully uptight and tense?

Other productive uses

This pattern is productive: a wide range of verbs concerned with the consequences or implications of situations and events sometimes have this pattern. For example, it occurs in sentences like It destroyed our credibility that we didn’t know what was going on within our own team.

In addition, there are a few fairly fixed phrases with this pattern.

It broke my heart that she could shut out my pain so easily.

He seemed less surly, more comfortable about being polite and ordinary. So it crossed my mind that I might give him another chance.

It never entered her head that their divorce would go through without a financial settlement having been made.

Most of the evidence was against him, and so it makes sense that he was found guilty.

It made no difference that we tried to talk to her, she just looked straight ahead and didn’t answer us.

5.2.6 “It+動詞+名詞+形容詞+ that從句” 例如：

(1) angry 發怒的；生氣的

It made me angry that my own sister and my own father are going out.

(2) crazy 生氣的；煩惱的

Of course it drives me crazy that I can’t live without my chocolate.

(3) furious 狂怒的；暴怒的

It makes me furious that people aren’t more outraged about that.

(4) happy 高興的；快樂的

At least it made me happy that she had to cancel them.

(5) mad 不明智的；瘋狂的

It drove me mad that I couldn’t afford sanity, but my choices were simple: stay crazy, move out of Manhattan, or return to work.

(6) proud 自豪的；得意的

It made me proud that he was my uncle.

(7) resentful 不滿的；憎惡的

Anderson says,’It has made many angry and resentful that they are typecast as being stupid or incompetent because of their age.’

(8) sad 糟糕的；不能令人接受的

It also made me sad that she could not think of a more original change.

(9) sick 難過的；很失望的

It just makes me sick that people are concerned about peep shows when people are dying on the street.

常用形容詞有：angry, furious, happy, mad, proud, resentful, sick等。crazy和sad常與drive搭配。

5.2.7 “It+動詞+名詞+as+形容詞+ that從句”  

根據John Sinclair主編的COLLINS COBUILD GRAMMAR PATTERNS2: NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES (上海外語教育出版社 2000年11月第1版) P488，以下形容詞可用于此句型：absurd, curious, odd, strange, unusual。

(1) extraordinary 異乎尋常的；令人驚奇的

It struck me as extraordinary that the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) should attack us on that point.

(2) ironic 出乎意料的；令人啼笑皆非的

It always struck me as ironic that these buildings, which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic, now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past.

(3) odd 奇特的；異常的

I often saw my father weep and it never struck me as odd that a man should express emotion.

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