strike up

The 78-year-old victim was attacked after a stranger struck up a conversation with him on Friday.

When it struck up a familiar waltz tune I decided to invite him for a dance.

Fulbright sat down on a pile of feed bags stacked on the floor and struck up a conversation.

Coca-Cola has struck up partnerships with at least some of these activist groups.

John struck up a friendship with a very pretty girl at my party last week.

At a well in Samaria, Jesus struck up a conversation with a woman about living water, and it changed her life.

Several of the passengers were perfect strangers until one of them struck up a conversation & then made a joke about airplane compartments.

The man replied, 'No. ' So the guy sat down and struck up a conversation.

We sat beside a young, attractive mother and her son, and I struck up a friendly conversation with the mother during the concert.

The band struck up for the dance, and they all went into the ball-room.

He struck up a relationship with Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which provides microfinance, to turn the dream into reality.

Thus thinking, I approached the old man and struck up a short conversation with him.

One day, walking nearby, Crane struck up a friendship with a young photographer who would also live on Columbia Heights, Walker Evans.

A dog and a cock having struck up an acquaintance, went out on their travels together.

In the hotel where the young men took lunch, they met two girls, and the parties struck up a friendship.

In the midnight, the citizens within the city struck up a cacophony of noise that startled the sleeping Yan troops.

He, waiting in the lounge , struck up a conversation with two American travellers--touching on many interesting cross- cultural issues .

Several western leaders, including George W. Bush and Tony Blair, initially felt that they had struck up a good relationship with Mr Putin.

One was over, not throwing garbage points, she struck up a conversation: "The Aunt (Ye Shu), words. thank, Cook skin pick me out? "

Musicians struck up a cacophony of eerie mourning sounds that lurched into an intense two-string Chinese violin-led drone.

After a few minutes, the straw struck up a conversation with the other two.

The scout struck up the bandit's arm and sent his pistol into the air.

John struck up conversations with them to hear them speak in local accent.

We also struck up a conversation with a German family, and they shared their huge plate of cold, crisp bacon with us.

In 1961, Bela Guttman, the club's great Hungarian coach, struck up a conversation in his local barbershop.

The two, known for their cool composure in competition, struck up a relationship while training for the Olympics.

As I waited in line, a nice gentleman in line behind me struck up a conversation.

Suddenly someone struck up the International.

And he did. He struck up at once a harvest thanksgiving hymn, all about crops being "safely gathered in" .

Pitt struck up a relationship with Jolie with whom he had a girl in 2006.

Torres and Gerrard have struck up a special playing partnership at Liverpool and have become close friends.

As the actors began putting on their makeup, the band struck up a tune.

The evening star will come out when my voyage is done and the plaintive notes of the twilight melodies be struck up from the King's gateway.

But the Islamists and secular liberals, with the shared aim of dishing the dictator, have struck up an alliance.

To live in such a water, there is a tree, another stone paradise where, from this may be struck up with the romantic.

We immediately struck up a lively conversation.

In a rare moment of peace and quiet, Pax struck up a friendship with Teemto Pagalies, another racer.

She tucked up her skirt, put her arm about Betushka, the musicians in the treetops struck up, and off they whirled.

But I soon came to find these interviews deeply interesting, because I struck up relationships, however brief, with people.

He struck up a conversation with the girl sitting next to him.

The steel band from across the street struck up another tune.

I struck up a conversation with this old woman in the shop.

The two boys quickly struck up a friendship.

She struck up the first carol on the grand piano .

As the musicians struck up, the wicker husband and the ugly girl went to dance.

The English crowd struck up a blushing chorus of We Are The Champions.

The orchestra struck up a waltz.

When Lovat had dispatched the sniper, he struck up again.

The band struck up (a waltz).

A lot the seats were still empty when the orchestra struck up.

Finally a band from New York struck up.

He had started a parenting blog shortly after I did and we struck up a friendship.

The band struck up as soon as the Queen stepped ashore.

The two struck up a friendship during then-candidate Barack Obama's trip to the region last year.

"My Princess" frankly a little surprised this story is my school time to write in a notebook, and then struck up a boring time.

And so we struck up a deal.

someone struck up a song and we al joined in