Example sentences of "[adv] strikes [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the city 's Royal Hallamshire Hospital , consultant David Gawkrodger said her illness — toxic epidermal necrolysis — only strikes one in a million people . |
| 2 | The London Planetarium no longer strikes one with quite the same sense of awe , because planetariums are no longer new . |
| 3 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 4 | No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 7 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To live with Iago as a reader , or in the theatre , is bad enough ; to create him shows an ability to conceive evil that almost strikes us as perverse and unnatural . |
| 10 | What most strikes you about this elegantly swaddled creature is that she seems encumbered by the costume of her role . |