Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a sudden [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So I did — and all of a sudden a man with a gun grabbed me round the neck and dragged me off . |
| 2 | I was sitting in a chair when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me : if a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight . |
| 3 | All of a sudden a voice called her name . |
| 4 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 5 | All of a sudden the issue is not sex , but being seen . |
| 6 | All of a sudden the dynamite business was in terrible trouble . |
| 7 | All of a sudden the far wall exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room . |
| 8 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 9 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 10 | And if the shouting were n't bad enough , all of a sudden the mice began wailing : ‘ The brute is loose ! |
| 11 | Two engines and propellers had been removed from the aircraft and all of a sudden the nose lifted and she went down on her tail . |
| 12 | She began to hurry , sorry now that she had not gone home , because all of a sudden the thought of missing out on a rave did n't seem that bad . |
| 13 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 14 | It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone … |
| 15 | He shook her off , with a toss of the head ; Miranda saw all of a sudden the theatricality of the gesture , and something inside her relaxed . |
| 16 | All of a sudden the cabin seemed stiflingly hot . |
| 17 | With no uniform but an armband and all but no weapons , we kept watch in rotation through the warm nights of that early summer , with German planes passing overhead and all of a sudden the ground shuddering from bombs dropped on Southampton or Bristol . |
| 18 | I wrote to this lot up here , and questioned it , and all of a sudden the ball starts bouncing , somebody starts supporting Fulham . |
| 19 | Taxi companies , video shops ( which did n't exist before ) and used car dealers — all of a sudden the town is full of Western scrap metal . |
| 20 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 21 | well no if it 's cold then all of a sudden the temperature will suddenly rise . |
| 22 | They were coming over in bloody gangs , right , there was the little ducks , you know the ones with green heads , so we were giving them bread and then all of a sudden the other side |
| 23 | Then all of a sudden the whole fire alarm went ee oo ee oo ee oo |
| 24 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |