Example sentences of "and all [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I did — and all of a sudden a man with a gun grabbed me round the neck and dragged me off . |
| 2 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 3 | Two engines and propellers had been removed from the aircraft and all of a sudden the nose lifted and she went down on her tail . |
| 4 | It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone … |
| 5 | With no uniform but an armband and all but no weapons , we kept watch in rotation through the warm nights of that early summer , with German planes passing overhead and all of a sudden the ground shuddering from bombs dropped on Southampton or Bristol . |
| 6 | I wrote to this lot up here , and questioned it , and all of a sudden the ball starts bouncing , somebody starts supporting Fulham . |
| 7 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 8 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |