Example sentences of "[adv] strike me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 2 | It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | She was — is — what people call a handsome woman , a phrase which has always struck me as a bit patronising . |
| 5 | Both were the same in one particular : both had one finger raised in what had always struck me as a rather rude gesture . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 10 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 13 | It never struck me at the time . |
| 14 | The thought never struck me during the game , though a few did start shouting for him . |