Example sentences of "strike i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact you strike me as the sort of poisonous little pockmark that will always be wrong ! |
| 2 | ‘ You strike me as the kind of fierce little feminist who thinks men are beneath her contempt , rapists one and all . ’ |
| 3 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 4 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 5 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 6 | What struck me about the Frankensteins was their youth , the father excepted , of course . |
| 7 | But Szasz 's observation struck me with the force of revelation . |
| 8 | It never struck me at the time . |
| 9 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 10 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 11 | What struck me at the time about the " battle " between Bennett and Slessor was that Bennett acted as an agent for his C-in-C as well as in his , own personal interest . |
| 12 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 13 | The thought never struck me during the game , though a few did start shouting for him . |
| 14 | Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 18 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 19 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 20 | Anyway , you do n't strike me as the sort who 's ashamed of her body . ’ |
| 21 | As I said , you do n't strike me as the sort of girl who hides her body from the public gaze , so I do n't know why you 're bothering to do so now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't strike me as the type who 'd be unduly overwhelmed by my so-called fame . |
| 23 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 24 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 25 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You did n't strike me as the kind of man who would put much stock in stereotypes . ’ |
| 27 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 28 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 29 | The first thing to strike me about the EX was that Ibanez have chosen to reduce the size of their name on the headstock from its usual HI THERE ! status to a very modestly-sized logo that would almost certainly not get served in my local . |
| 30 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |