Example sentences of "strike me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roth says to Levi in the course of the interview embodied in his article : ‘ Your other books are perhaps less ‘ imaginary ’ as to subject-matter but strike me as more imaginative in technique . |
| 2 | Two reasons strike me for this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But two features strike me as being particularly significant : cross-curricular themes and the planning of syllabuses from 5–16 . |
| 5 | The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting . |
| 6 | Two things immediately strike me about Hermann Max 's superb new version from WDR/EMI : the immaculate recording quality , and the amazing singing of the Rheinische Kantorei , whose technical command is apparently flawless . |
| 7 | A couple of points about the documentation strike me as being slightly unsatisfactory however . |
| 8 | ‘ Strike me if you dare ! |
| 9 | ‘ In fact you strike me as the sort of poisonous little pockmark that will always be wrong ! |
| 10 | No , my problem here lies more with the strength of the interpretations which strike me as lightweight . |
| 11 | They strike me as people who take a keen pleasure in the beauty of the natural world , and in the strength , swiftness and cleverness of animals ( even those of no use , or downright dangerous , to Man ) . |
| 12 | " They 're very nice and kind , " answered Pipkin , " but I 'll tell you how they strike me . |
| 13 | ‘ Strike me pink , ’ said Flavia . |
| 14 | " Strike me ! |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You strike me as the kind of fierce little feminist who thinks men are beneath her contempt , rapists one and all . ’ |
| 17 | Pete Burns , who may well be an admirable and likeable character , has always struck me as being the embodiment of music business sycophancy . ) |
| 18 | At last I understood the fanaticism which during my schooldays had always struck me as so forced . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around . |
| 21 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels . |
| 27 | He wrote , ‘ That very day , everything had struck me as totally mad … |
| 28 | Even in its earlier LP format this had always struck me as one of the very finest of the Hall é/Pye; recordings , and now I know why . |
| 29 | She was — is — what people call a handsome woman , a phrase which has always struck me as a bit patronising . |
| 30 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |