Example sentences of "strike [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt his pack of men would have returned later to retrieve it , but it did strike me as a rather unsatisfactory way to spend a day in the hills . |
| 2 | Make no mistake , he 's the group ringleader and possibly a control-freak , but he does n't strike me as a dictatorial megalomaniac . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't strike me as a religious man , ’ I said frankly . |
| 4 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 'S earnest captain Tim Robinson does n't strike me as a student of W.C. Fields , but recent events at Trent Bridge suggest he may not be unacquainted with his philosophy . |
| 5 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 6 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 7 | Anyway , you do n't strike me as the sort who 's ashamed of her body . ’ |
| 8 | As I said , you do n't strike me as the sort of girl who hides her body from the public gaze , so I do n't know why you 're bothering to do so now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't strike me as the type who 'd be unduly overwhelmed by my so-called fame . |
| 10 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 11 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 12 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't strike me as the kind of man who would put much stock in stereotypes . ’ |
| 14 | Eight ‘ first ’ books for under one pound will strike you as a remarkable offer right now . |
| 15 | ‘ Did n't it strike you as a strange technique ? ’ |
| 16 | Literary opinions differ , of course , but do these poets really strike you as ‘ a race of managers , whose mission , at all costs , is to multiply and subdue ’ ? |
| 17 | ‘ Do I strike you as the sort of man who 's attracted to Amazons ? ’ he asked , his grey eyes flicking curiously on her face , waiting to hear what she would say , but , she felt , not terribly concerned whether she replied or not . |
| 18 | How did it strike you as a document ? |
| 19 | I shall try to show that our political practices accept integrity as a distinct virtue , and I begin with what I hope will strike you as a puzzle . |
| 20 | The fact that she had no money of her own did n't strike her as an obstacle ; the Suffragettes had reinforced her natural contempt for people who worried about money . |
| 21 | It did n't strike her as the slightest bit funny . |
| 22 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 23 | He might radiate power and control but he did n't strike her as the kind of man who would number nursing skills among his repertoire . |
| 24 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 25 | Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution . |