Example sentences of "made a [adj] impression " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 Ronnie , 45 , made a good impression as he posed with his wife Jo , 36 , at a New York party .
3 The female candidate , Barbara Dalzell , a New Zealand journalist from the Financial Times , made a good impression and was reluctantly rejected as lacking experience .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ Merymose was not a fool ; and you made a good impression when we first met .
8 Svetlana and her mother made a genuine impression on me because they were the first woman and child to arrive here from Poland .
9 He himself was the first , and most important , trade unionist to present evidence to the commission , and he made a powerful impression upon its members .
10 The vocal soloists were generally lacklustre , though the young American Heldentenor John Keyes made a strong impression in the name part .
11 It made a lasting impression on me .
12 He also suffered a bout of typhoid and while the trip made a lasting impression on his bowels , it also confirmed his dislike of traditional expedition tactics .
13 But George Burt made a lasting impression on the place , after which it was no longer the old-world village it had been .
14 Modigliani knew how to adapt himself to his surroundings and made a great impression on the day he came to sketch Bakst .
15 And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me .
16 Rolle made a great impression on his contemporaries .
17 ‘ When I auditioned for him I made a great impression — or so I was told .
18 Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known .
19 The rich oral tradition of the pesme made a great impression on writers and folklorists during the Romantic revival of the nineteenth century .
20 The encounter with the bull made a great impression on George Sadler who came to the rescue ; and he left a written account of it .
21 The atmosphere and hospitality of the Orkneys made a great impression on all our crews .
22 I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details .
23 On the positive side , Chris Algar , who described her busy life as a systems engineer in last September 's Medau News has joined the Teachers ' Training Course and at the Step-up and Dance Studio in Leeds Jean Gill made a great impression with an introductory Medau session that she had been invited to reach .
24 It was felt that this small portion of Station Lane made a poor impression on visitors approaching Scorton .
25 Hitler 's confidence in early victory made a deep impression , and it was widely believed that the final push would begin in March or April .
26 And then he added something which made a deep impression on me .
27 On the minds of both Coleridge and Wordsworth the story of John Walford made a deep impression .
28 The stoicism with which the Masai endured the harsh circumstances of their lives made a deep impression on the British , and the opportunity to share that hard life and thus to display to some extent their own possession of this admirable quality was part of Masailand 's attraction for many Englishmen .
29 One of the cases which made a deep impression early on in my homoeopathic career was the thirty-two-year-old male patient with the enlarged spleen whose story is presented in Chapter I. Meanwhile I was consistently impressed by the speed with which our surgical patients recovered following operation , and with the fact that very seldom did we have to catheterize our female patients after gynaecological operations .
30 His energy , his sense of humour and his melodious voice made a deep impression .
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