Example sentences of "strike me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 5 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 6 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 7 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 8 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 9 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 10 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 11 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Bogyoke had lunch with Lord Wavell who recognised him as ‘ a strong character ’ but also warned Pethick-Lawrence that their negotiations would be difficult : ‘ He struck me as a suspicious , ignorant but determined little tough . ’ |
| 14 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
| 15 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 16 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 17 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 18 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 19 | That sense of ‘ bitter-sweet ’ ( the title , perhaps not incidentally , of one of Coward 's greatest stage successes ) strikes me as a crucial component of the structure of feeling I am interested in here . |
| 20 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 21 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 22 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 23 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 24 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 25 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 26 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't strike me as a religious man , ’ I said frankly . |
| 28 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 29 | Make no mistake , he 's the group ringleader and possibly a control-freak , but he does n't strike me as a dictatorial megalomaniac . |
| 30 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |