Example sentences of "[noun sg] suddenly [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 2 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 3 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 4 | Then Julius 's mouth closed over hers again , his hands began a series of loving , teasing caresses , and Jessamy forgot everything except that this was her brilliant , stubborn , bullish husband whom she loved very much , and a bright future suddenly shone in front of them . |
| 5 | When the car suddenly collided with something solid she knew her prayers had n't been answered . |
| 6 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 7 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 8 | There were robes where the pouring light suddenly solidified into rather grisly bones that rattled and gibbered and , on the same racks , were robes made of several different kinds of skin . |
| 9 | While they watched the rain a horse suddenly walked around the corner of the track ahead . |
| 10 | The nose dipped further , and the flame suddenly raced along the wings and around the cockpit . |
| 11 | Shell-fire suddenly tore into the roof of the mobile boardroom . |
| 12 | The figure suddenly jumped into the water . |
| 13 | Daylight suddenly burst upon them , sunlight , and up there for a moment blue sky and white clouds and a tall whitish building . |
| 14 | After he finished , it is said , a wind suddenly arose from the floor of the desert and blew sand across the spectators . |
| 15 | As he spoke an icy wind suddenly blew into the room . |
| 16 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 17 | Lee 's stepdad suddenly appeared behind Philip . |
| 18 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 19 | Suddenly a passing girl suddenly swerved towards him and threw her arms round his waist . |
| 20 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 21 | The coroner suddenly reined in his horse , staring back at a group of dark figures who had just slipped by . |
| 22 | ‘ A weekend 's skiing suddenly seemed like a nice idea . ’ |
| 23 | The room suddenly seemed to him both overcrowded and empty . |
| 24 | The room suddenly hummed with tension . |
| 25 | As he watched , a young lad suddenly stooped behind Stewart and made a piggy-back , another lad shouldered him , and over he went , falling heavily while people nearest roared and laughed . |
| 26 | But the thought of returning to publishing had not seriously entered his head until the spring of 1981 , when his attention suddenly focused on an industrial dispute afflicting Time Out magazine and its proprietor Tony Elliott . |
| 27 | It was only when attention suddenly focused upon how the earliest hominids kept their large and delicate brains cool in tropical zones that insights occurred . |
| 28 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 29 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 30 | The morning had a soft babylike tenderness upon which the postman suddenly intruded with a postcard . |