Example sentences of "[adv] abruptly as it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as abruptly as it had pitched camp , the caravan moved on . |
| 2 | Only to cease as abruptly as it had begun . |
| 3 | As abruptly as it had started , the storm stopped and the sun shone from a sky the colour of a Ceylon sapphire . |
| 4 | For almost a minute it continued , and then it stopped , as abruptly as it had begun . |
| 5 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 6 | As abruptly as it had become paralysed , her tongue was loosened . |