Example sentences of "[conj] strike me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 2 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 3 | The first thing that struck me about Dana 's poems was his incredibly tiny script , an almost minuscule handwriting that was often difficult to decipher . |
| 4 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 5 | That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the live side that struck me as being a bit special , ’ he says . |
| 7 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 8 | Cliff Bastin said of his celebrated partner : ‘ The first thing that struck me about Alex was his terrific self-confidence . |
| 9 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 10 | But it was quite a different contrast that struck me there in Alison 's kitchen : the aching disparity between the woman who stood there , impatient for me to be gone , and the one I was going home to . |
| 11 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 13 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 14 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 15 | It was not only Jean-Claude 's selfishness that struck me , but my collusion in it . |
| 16 | That 's one that struck me . |
| 17 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
| 18 | ‘ Things that struck me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just the principle of the thing that struck me . ’ |
| 20 | Nor had it stopped her form giving me news that struck me dumb with panic . |
| 21 | The nineteen twenty six strike , the o the thing that struck me most of all was , they were going to out the railway men . |
| 22 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 23 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 24 | It was the commercialism that struck me . |
| 25 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 26 | The thing that struck me most about the room was its symmetry . |
| 27 | The evening of talented entertainment was hilarious and also included shafts of criticism expressed in humour that struck me as evidence of CA 's basic good health . |
| 28 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 29 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 30 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |