Example sentences of "[adv] of the blue " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same week he told Maggie out of the blue that he wanted to see her alone . |
| 2 | ‘ This has come out of the blue , and we are due to go to Argentina next summer , ’ said Wood . |
| 3 | ‘ I have got a very good deal , and it came virtually out of the blue , ’ said the Doncaster-based rider , who until last week thought his future lay with a new team being planned in Belgium . |
| 4 | ‘ Then out of the blue , Nottingham came for me . |
| 5 | I just dreamed out of the blue that she had died , and then she did die . |
| 6 | Then one day , out of the blue there was a miracle — or was it perhaps a fairy tale ? |
| 7 | It was quite a heavy blow , quite out of the blue — yet I enjoyed it ! ’ |
| 8 | So there I am popping my tray next to his in the unit , when he says , right out of the blue , completely unprovoked , I have n't said anything — |
| 9 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 10 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 11 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 12 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 13 | They recorded their new demos not under the blazing summary affluence of a Compass Point but in the rundown but equally effective ruins of Out Of The Blue , an eight-track studio in the rat-infested decay of Ancoats , Manchester . |
| 14 | He drew the conclusion from this that the riot ‘ came like a bolt out of the blue ’ ( Guardian , 21 November 1985 ) . |
| 15 | He was liable to forget to buy birthday or Christmas presents ( one year when he resolved to mark Christmas properly , he bought everyone gift vouchers because he could not decide what to get ) , but would make a gift out of the blue for no other reason than that it was a nice day . |
| 16 | It is important to remember that illness does not strike ‘ out of the blue ’ even though it may seem that way at times . |
| 17 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |
| 18 | OUT OF THE BLUE |
| 19 | He just showed up out of the blue one day while Nathan was working . |
| 20 | Out of the blue |
| 21 | This statement ‘ out of the blue ’ naturally was not understood by the speechreader , who wondered why people laughed . |
| 22 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 23 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 24 | Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems . |
| 25 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 26 | Salvation , finally , appeared out of the blue one night in the shape of up-and-coming young trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies . |
| 27 | You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything , just like that . |
| 28 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |
| 29 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 30 | Psychotic depression , on the other hand , is more severe , seems to come ‘ out of the blue ’ , and to the observer appears to have a more biological ‘ feel ’ about it . |