Example sentences of "suddenly [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling a need suddenly for warmth and companionship , she turned , meaning to retrace her steps to where Fen sat , apparently engrossed now that she had left him in peace . |
| 2 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 3 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 4 | - The only cricket stories in the newspapers are suddenly about winter tours of places you did n't even know played cricket . |
| 5 | A third patient died suddenly after rupture of an aortic aneurysm 63 months after orthotopic transplantation , having been previously well and working full time . |
| 6 | Sense suddenly of peace . |
| 7 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 8 | The strong sweetish sherry with its tawny smell shocked her , running suddenly like fire into her whole body , into her wits . |
| 9 | Sarah was seized suddenly with rage at Philip for dying , for leaving her behind in the world . |
| 10 | The inner contemplation of the matters which troubled him merged suddenly with awareness that the sword was an unbearable weight at the end of his extended arms . |
| 11 | He bent down and kissed it , overcome suddenly with remorse . |
| 12 | Plunged suddenly into darkness , Ellie blinked to accustom her eyes , opened her mouth — and closed it again . |
| 13 | They have been seen to spring suddenly into existence , to change shape , merge and split . |
| 14 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 15 | But by the end of May 1797 , with the countryside bursting suddenly into beauty after the coldest spring Dorothy could remember , they knew that their unorthodox tenancy was not likely to continue : John Pretor Pinney was already looking for rent-paying tenants . |
| 16 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 17 | Their preference was understandable , for Till was in flood , spreading in lead-grey pools across the water-meadows , and flashing suddenly into silver when fitful gleams of sunshine broke through the mask of cloud overhead . |
| 18 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 19 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 20 | lifting off suddenly in mid-bend is n't such a good idea either — in short you just have to be aware all the time of how much power you have in so little car . |
| 21 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 22 | It is ironic , however , that Nizan , who had previously denounced the liberal cultural policy of Barbusse , the PCF 's own leading writer , now found himself called upon to woo fellow-travelling bourgeois writers such as Gide in order to gain maximum support for a popular front political and cultural policy suddenly in favour . |
| 23 | I suppose that 's why you were suddenly in favour of my investing in the Rose Bowl . |
| 24 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 25 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 26 | The Partnerships did not find themselves suddenly in receipt of substantial resources deflected from other local-authority budgets . |
| 27 | She jumped to her feet , suddenly in need of occupation , and went into the kitchen . |
| 28 | Four strokes ahead at the turn he was suddenly in trouble and overtaken by Jeff Maggert , who had a three-stroke lead with two to play . |
| 29 | Her eyes widened suddenly in protest , and she tried to withdraw her hand , but his light grip tightened . |
| 30 | But he quietened down soon after , because when Jennifer turned her dark eyes in his direction he was put suddenly in mind of Martha and understood very well why Tristram had been unable to keep away from her . |