Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the blue " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Thomas said he had been concerned that the call had come out of the blue . |
| 2 | The appointment of Sally Coleman to the job of manager of Waterstones at Harrods from her current post running the Covent Garden outpost of the empire has come out of the blue . |
| 3 | Signor Candiano 's letter had come out of the blue . |
| 4 | A YOUNG man was on a life support machine last night after being attacked out of the blue in a town centre . |
| 5 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 6 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 7 | It came out of the blue , before he knew he was famous . |
| 8 | ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue . |
| 9 | ‘ It came out of the blue . |
| 10 | She said yesterday : ‘ The proposal came out of the blue . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the awful thing , it came out of the blue . |
| 12 | He told the Echo today : ‘ It all came out of the blue . |
| 13 | George Tinsley , of the Tap and Barrel 's owners the North Yorkshire Brewing Company , said : ‘ This came out of the blue , it was a total surprise . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Hartlepool 's offer came out of the blue . |
| 15 | News of King George 's death came out of the blue . |
| 16 | But before I had finished this wearisome task , the cheque arrived out of the blue . |
| 17 | Many , if not most , events implicated in depression do not occur out of the blue . |
| 18 | If God is truly to begin again , then he must start with a child born out of the blue , a child most decidedly of his making . |
| 19 | The Guardian , in its wisdom , plucks out of the blue a figure of £200 million . |
| 20 | Coming out of the blue as it did , I did not quite know how to reply to such a suggestion . |
| 21 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 22 | If the two papers had appeared out of the blue , with no preparation of the scientific ground , they would surely have made an enormous impact both among astronomers and in the wider world . |
| 23 | Erm any suggestion that erm the figures that we 're putting before this E I P have appeared out of the blue , er we would wish to er refute quite categorically . |
| 24 | When positive news did come , it again seemed to arrive out of the blue . |
| 25 | We were still in the Air Force , postings could come out of the blue at any time , so every hour we could spend together was important . |
| 26 | His offer did not come out of the blue . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it 's a recognised symptom of the condition that an attack can come out of the blue . |
| 28 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 29 | Good ideas rarely come out of the blue ; search carefully and you will often find that someone else has anticipated your inspiration or at least , thought of something similar to it . |
| 30 | It is another devastating speech , and it comes out of the blue . |