1.   For all his eccentricity, he had impressed me as a most intelligent man.

2.   He always impressed us as being very bright.

3.   He impressed me as a physically powerful man operating for the moment under great restraint.

4.   Maud talked with a mixture of pedantry and horse sense that impressed him as singular and forcible.

5.   Billy Sullivan had impressed me as a fine man.

6.   NFC impresses me as a democratically managed organisation.

7.   But if he did not make his mark as an innovator in his first year in office, Bush would impress as an implementer.

8.   Clarence impressed me as a fellow who thinks things out ahead of time.

9.   Even in the historic center of Paris, they impressed as placid presences.

10.   Fassel and Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi have gone out of their way to say that Alford impresses them as a football player.