Example sentences of "strikes i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the novel strikes me , and at one time Dostoevsky thought so too . |
| 2 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 3 | If foxes have to be killed , then shooting strikes me as being as decent a method as any , and probably far better than most . |
| 4 | Having read with interest the saga of the Ashley Court Hotel , and now the first instalment on the Valley Hotel ( Caterer , 11–17 July ) , it strikes me that the Povahs and the Cassons should combine their marketing , accounting and food systems skills . |
| 5 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 6 | Hailed by Paul Oldfield as ‘ the missing boy of pop ’ , someone whose resistance takes the form of an absenteeism from life , it strikes me that Reilly 's mystical anorexia is unusually suited to Morrissey 's neurasthenia , his supine delinquency . |
| 7 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 8 | Of the remaining varieties , red kidney beans are the most widely known , being a vital ingredient in chilli con carne , which strikes me as being second only to ham , egg and chips on the standard pub menu ! |
| 9 | But it strikes me that this is really the view of people who do n't have them . |
| 10 | It always strikes me as odd that we are incredibly specific in our lives about the small things , ordering a sandwich for instance : we order type of bread , filling , relish , seasonings and extras . |
| 11 | What strikes me about it is not only the great repertory you 've covered and the astonishing sales figures that must now be in the region of a hundred million , but the creative way you 've used the medium in conjunction with your years of work with the Berlin Philharmonic . |
| 12 | The excuse quoted by Mr Dick Palmer strikes me as being narrow-minded and insensitive , and to compare Manchester United and Arsenal football strips with the international logo for the Olympics is contemptible . |
| 13 | Punch jokes have never been tremendously funny , but one particular line , ‘ Fostering prices start from just £14.95 ’ , strikes me as quite droll . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Heav'n strikes me , I shall own the Blow : |
| 16 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ One thing strikes me as odd , Mr Newman , ’ he began , his manner officious . |
| 19 | Put this to the wife who strikes me a blow with the potato-masher . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 21 | It strikes me as a decidedly short-term scheme . ’ |
| 22 | It strikes me that the transformed cladists have changed little except the words . |
| 23 | I do , however , have some minor reservations about their approach to individual movements ( the Finale of Op. 51 No. 1 strikes me as a little lacking in urgency , for example ) and the recordings tend to emphasise a rather compressed dynamic range . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , the transcription strikes me as being entirely successful . |
| 25 | Sheila , it strikes me that one of the main problems with the argument is just what Ruth said : wages for housework is a kind of global undefined demand which sucks everything into it like a whirlpool , and ignores all the other demands — what about equal pay , what about equal educational opportunities , what about contraception and abortion , what about nurseries — there 's no short-term strategy in it , let alone long-term strategy . |
| 26 | ‘ It strikes me it 's searching for something . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith , it strikes me as less surprising thin they suggest . |
| 28 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 29 | ’ According to John Simon , the casting of Hoffman ‘ strikes me as ill-advised and damaging … |
| 30 | But suddenly the sheer numbers of people quietly bedding down in doorways strikes me as an augury of Labour defeat . |