Example sentences of "struck up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell . |
| 2 | T'WIT to woo owls Eddie and Edwina have struck up a tender relationship . |
| 3 | Alone and friendless , she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin . |
| 4 | She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were . |
| 5 | Herr Bremann first visited Darlington Hall very shortly after the war while still in his officer 's uniform , and it was evident to any observer that he and Lord Darlington had struck up a close friendship . |
| 6 | She was accepted for the Winter Gardens show , immediately struck up a great friendship with Edith Whalley and they became inseparable . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the daughters , Fiona , who was always known as ‘ the pretty one ’ , had struck up a great friendship with Mama , who had been invited back to Scotland . |
| 8 | You must gauge for yourself whether or not you have struck up a good relationship with the interviewer and whether a letter would work for you or against you . |
| 9 | While Payton has struck up a sound understanding with Frank McAvennie , Celtic 's greatest asset today may be their desire for victory . |
| 10 | I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast . |
| 11 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |