Example sentences of "strike [pers pn] [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 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 12 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 13 | John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander . |
| 14 | Mr Hunter had n't struck her as a man who would easily admit he was wrong . |
| 15 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 16 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 17 | Margot Iverson had struck him as a very controlled woman . |
| 18 | Hauser had struck him as a man who moved with great caution . |
| 19 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 20 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 21 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 22 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |
| 23 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 24 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 25 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 26 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 27 | S strike it on the edge . |
| 28 | Strike us with the rain of your arrows . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |