Example sentences of "strike [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 2 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 3 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 4 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 5 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 6 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 7 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 8 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 9 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 10 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 11 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 12 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 13 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 14 | That sense of ‘ bitter-sweet ’ ( the title , perhaps not incidentally , of one of Coward 's greatest stage successes ) strikes me as a crucial component of the structure of feeling I am interested in here . |
| 15 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 16 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 17 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 18 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 19 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 20 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't strike me as a religious man , ’ I said frankly . |
| 22 | Make no mistake , he 's the group ringleader and possibly a control-freak , but he does n't strike me as a dictatorial megalomaniac . |
| 23 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't it strike you as a strange technique ? ’ |
| 25 | Eight ‘ first ’ books for under one pound will strike you as a remarkable offer right now . |
| 26 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 27 | It struck her as a terrible waste , for she felt nothing as Kattina erotically licked her sensitive flesh in dainty , small circles commencing at her throat , and finishing inside her dinky navel . |
| 28 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 29 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |