Example sentences of "strike me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You strike me as a basically good-natured and decent girl , and if I can be of assistance in putting you back on the right path , I shall be happy to oblige , so long as you do not expect too lengthy or too frequent an exchange . |
| 2 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In fact you strike me as the sort of poisonous little pockmark that will always be wrong ! |
| 4 | ‘ You strike me as the kind of fierce little feminist who thinks men are beneath her contempt , rapists one and all . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 6 | The Esprit is a twin humbucker guitar , a departure from the norm for Fender ; while they are justly famed for their single coil pickups , their humbuckers have always struck me as a little tame … |
| 7 | She was — is — what people call a handsome woman , a phrase which has always struck me as a bit patronising . |
| 8 | Both were the same in one particular : both had one finger raised in what had always struck me as a rather rude gesture . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 14 | It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’ |
| 15 | But Dad told me Liza had already done them , which struck me as a miracle . |
| 16 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 17 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 20 | The Bogyoke had lunch with Lord Wavell who recognised him as ‘ a strong character ’ but also warned Pethick-Lawrence that their negotiations would be difficult : ‘ He struck me as a suspicious , ignorant but determined little tough . ’ |
| 21 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 22 | He also struck me as a man who gave the most mature thought before uttering even one of these rare words ; and that if you said ‘ good morning ’ to him , he would reflect for some seconds while a number of questions passed through his mind . |
| 23 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 24 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 25 | Although I do not propose to go into the details of the church here , suffice to say , it struck me as a very curious place with many things strangely out of kilter . |
| 26 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 27 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 28 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 29 | She struck me as a rather isolated figure , psychologically as well as physically , sitting at that distant table . |
| 30 | I was too scared to speak to her because she was a bit on the large side and had a pair of glasses sitting on the tip of her nose and she struck me as a very bossy , short tempered teacher . |