Example sentences of "[vb past] strike me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 4 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 5 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | he did strike me like how I 'd feel about this because it 's |
| 8 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 9 | He wrote , ‘ That very day , everything had struck me as totally mad … |
| 10 | Despite his initial disclaimer about not feeling a representational figure in our society , it had struck me that Cleese 's voice is unique . |
| 11 | If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben , it would have meant no hope for me . |
| 12 | If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse . |
| 13 | Back in the world , the marshal — Juliet — had struck me that way . |
| 14 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 15 | One thing he said struck me as a pointer to watch when spotting for future take-overs : ‘ Like every company we have ever taken over , RHM has had problems at head office . ’ |
| 16 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |