Example sentences of "make a good impression " in BNC.
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| 1 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 3 | All this helps make a good impression on the customer . |
| 4 | Unless he had changed a lot he would not make a good impression . |
| 5 | I suppose I did n't make a good impression on her . |
| 6 | Lambert spent two days on trial with French giants Monaco this week and said : ‘ I think I made a good impression but I 'm quite happy to stay with Reading . ’ |
| 7 | Ronnie , 45 , made a good impression as he posed with his wife Jo , 36 , at a New York party . |
| 8 | The female candidate , Barbara Dalzell , a New Zealand journalist from the Financial Times , made a good impression and was reluctantly rejected as lacking experience . |
| 9 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 10 | If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised . |
| 11 | The galley was very cramped , but the ship 's chests , still marked FOR 2 SEAMEN , and the deckhouse , from which Willis had watched the life of the river go by , both made a good impression . |
| 12 | ‘ Merymose was not a fool ; and you made a good impression when we first met . |
| 13 | Make a good impression . |
| 14 | The wines are attractively presented , making a good impression , and at tasting by this magazine 's group editor , Brian Hargreaves , and food and wine consultant Peter Williams , made an instant impact of being decidedly different , due partly in the case of the whites to a variation of the French sur le lie process , most familiar in Muscadet . |
| 15 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 16 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 17 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be selfish ; do n't live to make a good impression on others ’ ( Philippians 2:3 in the Living Bible ) . |
| 20 | When pointing out that someone keeps quiet because he wants to make a good impression , why not say so ? |
| 21 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 22 | This is clearly recognized by van Dijk , who writes that ‘ on the one hand people want to express possibly negative experiences or evaluations , but on the other hand social norms force them to make a good impression , and not appear as racists ’ ( 1985a : 69–70 ) . |
| 23 | It 's your first day , and you need to make a good impression . ’ |
| 24 | But if you want to make a good impression on examiners , prospective employers or clients , the mastery of our unreasonable orthography is a necessity . |
| 25 | But since it was his first day in the place , he was particularly anxious to make a good impression , and to demonstrate his eagerness to accept the spirit of the institution . |
| 26 | Not just any portrait painter , either , but one who might possibly end up as part of the family and on whom it was therefore important to make a good impression . |
| 27 | It was mainly to make a good impression on the new tribe . |