Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining men were just preparing to leave when suddenly a young man called Laban Tall rushed into the malthouse , almost too excited to speak . |
| 2 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
| 3 | Then suddenly a wide grin split his face . |
| 4 | Suddenly a portentous atmosphere has been established . |
| 5 | Then quite suddenly a new design starts up . |
| 6 | Suddenly a new aspect appears beyond the obvious and very gradually takes form . |
| 7 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 8 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 9 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 10 | Suddenly a small crate appeared in the centre of the road ahead of her . |
| 11 | Suddenly a great flame lit the room . |
| 12 | Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder . |
| 13 | Suddenly a black rage burned up in her . |
| 14 | We are making fast progress till suddenly a black van pulls out of a lane twenty yards ahead , brakes , and spills a sackful of coppers out the back . |
| 15 | Suddenly a dark shape appeared in front of me . |
| 16 | The man was sweating profusely , and suddenly a dark stain spread on the front of his trousers . |
| 17 | Suddenly a fat gypsy stood up . |
| 18 | Suddenly a cold wind rose from nowhere . |
| 19 | All went well until suddenly a drive-shaft cover came loose and shot across the room , leaving a small hole through which the gas began to spurt . |
| 20 | Then suddenly a long-legged figure raced from the wood partway down the bank . |
| 21 | Suddenly a white gate looms up in front . |
| 22 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 23 | She felt him draw her closer up against his body — and suddenly a tingling sensation started somewhere inside her . |
| 24 | Suddenly a heavy hand whacked him in the shoulder blades . |
| 25 | She could have cried , but she had no time to dwell on her disappointment , for suddenly a harsh voice hailed her from below . |
| 26 | Indeed , I think that the onslaught of modern consumerism is not so much a slavish addiction to fashion as a capitulation to hedonism . |
| 27 | An iconoclast such as Anderson could never have settled into directing films about mummies , werewolves and vampires , and Hammer was too much a market-led company to encourage fresh approaches to the monstrous . |
| 28 | Cuvier 's counterpart in Britain was a much more prosaic son of the Industrial Revolution — William Smith — whose conclusions were basically very similar but who was far too much a practical man to want to theorise about it . |
| 29 | Theodora was struck anew by how much a physical presence determined what could and could not be said . |
| 30 | Moreover , it was very much a conscious decision inspired by the welfare work of Norman Chamberlain , its leading social reformer , and his co-worker Edward Birchall . |