Example sentences of "suddenly [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as she reached the dock 's edge , she suddenly checked . |
| 2 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 3 | He went up to look more closely at Mr Edgar , who suddenly recovered and hit Heathcliff hard on the neck . |
| 4 | Irina 's face , which had been stiff , stony , suddenly gleamed , her eyes narrowed , splintered and glittered , then opened wide , her mouth relaxed . |
| 5 | To her bewilderment , though , she suddenly experienced a most compelling feeling of not wanting to leave Mariánské Láznë next Tuesday ! |
| 6 | Into this seemingly catastrophic situation suddenly rode Michel Rocard , Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991 and the man officially designated as the socialist candidate for the 1995 presidential election . |
| 7 | Into this seemingly catastrophic situation suddenly rode Mr Rocard , prime minister from 1988 to 1991 and the man officially designated as the Socialist candidate for the 1995 presidential election . |
| 8 | Maggie and Natasha were having their dinnertime piece , and a right old gossip , when Natasha suddenly whispered , ‘ I think you 're about to have a visitor . ’ |
| 9 | But do I know her thoughts , her wishes , her feelings ? a voice suddenly whispered . |
| 10 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 11 | Taff suddenly asked , turning to look at me . |
| 12 | Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? |
| 13 | On one such occasion , when Greg was sixteen , he suddenly asked me , ‘ Mum , how do you see your role as a parent ? ’ |
| 14 | All this time , she was staring at my legs , and suddenly asked : ‘ Are those nylons you are wearing , or are you wearing no stockings at all ? ’ |
| 15 | She gave me a little frank talk about life in the trenches during the 1914 War and then suddenly asked : ‘ What about that murder ? |
| 16 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |
| 17 | I suddenly asked , remembering the numerals painted on Dream Baby 's bows . |
| 18 | ‘ Have we got any beer on this boat ? ’ he suddenly asked . |
| 19 | Rickie suddenly asked me in what purported to be a tone of serious enquiry . |
| 20 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 21 | Ellie suddenly asked her companion . |
| 22 | " Do you not think it 's very hot in here ? " the maid suddenly asked the cook . |
| 23 | There came one of those breaks in the conversation , and in the middle of it Jane suddenly asked : " Are you all better again now , dear ? |
| 24 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |
| 25 | Then the Aldwych Theatre suddenly asked him to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 26 | My mother was talking about my niece who had chicken-pox when Thomas , four , suddenly asked : ‘ Nanna , does that mean Samantha can lay eggs ? ’ |
| 27 | But then he suddenly asked , ‘ Why did he leave Argentina ? ’ |
| 28 | At the end she suddenly asked Tess a question . |
| 29 | Martinho suddenly asked one afternoon . |
| 30 | Jenna suddenly asked , remembering her own unease at this — and Glyn 's suspicions . |