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 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 15 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 16 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 17 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 18 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't strike me as a religious man , ’ I said frankly . |
| 21 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 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 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |