Example sentences of "strike me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Struck me as a dull lot by and large .
3 She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person .
4 Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing .
5 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 .
6 It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified .
7 I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view .
8 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 .
9 Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns .
14 ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo .
15 Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’
16 Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’
17 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 .
18 ‘ You do n't strike me as a religious man , ’ I said frankly .
19 Make no mistake , he 's the group ringleader and possibly a control-freak , but he does n't strike me as a dictatorial megalomaniac .
20 No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’
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