Example sentences of "[verb] suddenly [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plunged suddenly into darkness , Ellie blinked to accustom her eyes , opened her mouth — and closed it again . |
| 2 | Their preference was understandable , for Till was in flood , spreading in lead-grey pools across the water-meadows , and flashing suddenly into silver when fitful gleams of sunshine broke through the mask of cloud overhead . |
| 3 | At first , however , most geneticists joined De Vries and Bateson in assuming that new genetic characters appear suddenly by saltation . |
| 4 | Sense suddenly of peace . |
| 5 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 6 | He bent down and kissed it , overcome suddenly with remorse . |
| 7 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 8 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 9 | Her eyes widened suddenly in protest , and she tried to withdraw her hand , but his light grip tightened . |
| 10 | ‘ Goodnight , O , ’ and then she turned suddenly to Boy and said to him , very pointedly : |
| 11 | The inner contemplation of the matters which troubled him merged suddenly with awareness that the sword was an unbearable weight at the end of his extended arms . |
| 12 | The strong sweetish sherry with its tawny smell shocked her , running suddenly like fire into her whole body , into her wits . |
| 13 | Even then they do n't get a break , because they are woken suddenly at night and asked questions in some language they are not supposed to speak . |
| 14 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 15 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 16 | Sarah was seized suddenly with rage at Philip for dying , for leaving her behind in the world . |
| 17 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 18 | 18 LATE NEWS You will be sorry to hear that 's husband died suddenly at home after many years of ill-health and we send our heartfelt sympathy to and her family . |
| 19 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 20 | Arthur Sidney Herbert , who died suddenly in hospital in April 1991 at the age of 78 , was a member of Ealing for over 40 years and in his younger days was a good all-rounder for the first XI . |
| 21 | A DARLINGTON man lost his fight for life five days after his wife died suddenly in hospital . |
| 22 | He died suddenly from typhoid at the Hotel Maurice , Paris , 18 May 1872 . |
| 23 | A third patient died suddenly after rupture of an aortic aneurysm 63 months after orthotopic transplantation , having been previously well and working full time . |
| 24 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 25 | But he quietened down soon after , because when Jennifer turned her dark eyes in his direction he was put suddenly in mind of Martha and understood very well why Tristram had been unable to keep away from her . |
| 26 | Substantial memory melted suddenly to consciousness of present loss . |
| 27 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 28 | Parliaments thrive best where they have not been created suddenly from scratch , but have evolved from a monarch 's Council of Elders . |
| 29 | But by the end of May 1797 , with the countryside bursting suddenly into beauty after the coldest spring Dorothy could remember , they knew that their unorthodox tenancy was not likely to continue : John Pretor Pinney was already looking for rent-paying tenants . |
| 30 | I stand in the queue for one of the new-fangled ticket machines clutching my one pound coin , but when it 's my turn , the dot matrix display has changed suddenly from CHANGE GIVEN to EXACT MONEY ONLY . |