Example sentences of "[adv] strike me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For some reason , this strange conversation does not strike me as at all odd .
2 At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble .
3 You do not strike me as ugly , nor mis-shapen , nor lacking manners .
4 Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote .
5 It just struck me as … well , odd .
6 At last I understood the fanaticism which during my schooldays had always struck me as so forced .
7 Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around .
8 ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels .
9 Even in its earlier LP format this had always struck me as one of the very finest of the Hall é/Pye; recordings , and now I know why .
10 That had always struck me as pretty morbid , but this was the season of goodwill to all men .
11 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 .
12 The thought of the bust always struck me as hilarious .
13 I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain .
14 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 .
15 I had other games , but that one always struck me as one of my more mature inventions ; symbolic somehow , and with a nice blend of callousness and irony .
16 He also struck me as wholly sincere and a very decent sort .
17 And I think that this kind of contradiction really struck me even as this fifteen year old .
18 Along with the Etudes on the fourth disc is Children 's Corner , and here again the playing often strikes me as dull , as in the ‘ Serenade of the doll ’ and ‘ The snow is dancing ’ , which are both on the slow side .
19 ‘ She did n't strike me as worried . ’
20 They did n't strike me as particularly courteous .
21 ‘ She did n't strike me as awfully thrilled with things , ’ he said , staring into the fire , remembering the look on Cindy 's face as she recognized him .
22 Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’
23 That does n't strike me as quite your style . ’
24 I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image .
25 It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ .
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