Example sentences of "strike i [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You strike me as the kind of fierce little feminist who thinks men are beneath her contempt , rapists one and all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In fact you strike me as the sort of poisonous little pockmark that will always be wrong ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Szasz 's observation struck me with the force of revelation . |
| 5 | It never struck me at the time . |
| 6 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 7 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 8 | What struck me at the time about the " battle " between Bennett and Slessor was that Bennett acted as an agent for his C-in-C as well as in his , own personal interest . |
| 9 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 10 | The thought never struck me during the game , though a few did start shouting for him . |
| 11 | Can be proved by describing the duty being performed , e.g. ‘ I said to John Brown ‘ You are being arrested for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ and was just about to hold his arm and caution him when he struck me in the face with his left fist etc . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't strike me as the kind of man who would put much stock in stereotypes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't strike me as the type who 'd be unduly overwhelmed by my so-called fame . |
| 14 | Anyway , you do n't strike me as the sort who 's ashamed of her body . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Zoser does n't strike me as the sort of person who would have contacts . ’ |
| 17 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 18 | The first thing to strike me about the EX was that Ibanez have chosen to reduce the size of their name on the headstock from its usual HI THERE ! status to a very modestly-sized logo that would almost certainly not get served in my local . |
| 19 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |