Sentence examples for tonne of bricks from inspiring English sources

It hit me like a tonne of bricks.

So when it didn't work, it hit me like a tonne of bricks.

I went over on to my side like a tonne of bricks.

Inheritance tax too high, can't get the gardeners, murder the chambermaid and the law's down on you like a tonne of bricks?

But pilots cannot always control their head movements during high-G manoeuvres, during which a helmet can feel "like a tonne of bricks", says Jonathan Waldern of SBG Labs, a Silicon Valley defence contractor.

Officers are supposed to use their judgment, often in difficult situations, and that means they are bound to get things wrong; coming down on them like a tonne of bricks means that they will stop taking decisions, or stop joining the police service.

(They also gave Eliasson those three tonnes of bricks).

It was a founding partner in the consortium which built or refurbished the 17 Edinburgh schools, including Oxgangs primary school where tonnes of bricks crashed into a playground during a gale in January.

According to Business Recycling (2013), there was approximately 8 million tonnes of brick disposed of landfill and recycling in Australia in 2005.

A local farmer taught him how to make dry-stone-walls, and he got a professional in to tile the floor, but everything else he did himself, floating tonnes of brick and sand down the river and hauling them up to the building site on a moped.

"She didn't want to, but she found that to eat the wall was the only way to stop her thinking about it … By the time she was 17 years old she had eaten eight square metres of the wall – more than half a tonne of mud bricks".