Example sentences of "suddenly [vb past] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
| 2 | Foolishly , the roughness from one who had been so kind was the last straw , and tears suddenly welled into her eyes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 5 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 6 | He suddenly swam into vocal range again . |
| 7 | Vologsky suddenly exploded into action . |
| 8 | He suddenly exploded into anger , jaw thrust out pugnaciously , dark eyes gleaming . |
| 9 | It was the headlamp of a large Harley Davidson motorcycle roaring towards the cinema audiences of the mid-Sixties as the biker movies suddenly came into vogue , along with all the other fashions and fads of the emergent , decadent age . |
| 10 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
| 11 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 12 | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney 's distorted voice gave it life . |
| 13 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 14 | And in the afternoon of the fourth day his guards suddenly trooped into his cell and ordered him up and out with them . |
| 15 | Lāla Bahādur 's desultory grizzling , which for some time had provided a steady accompaniment to his father 's voice , suddenly broke into an urgent heartfelt wail . |
| 16 | The bleeper attached to his belt suddenly shrilled into life and after silencing it he eased the hook from the mouth of the pike thrashing about at his feet and brushed it back into the water with the side of his boot . |
| 17 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 18 | She suddenly dissolved into floods of tears . |
| 19 | As he spoke an icy wind suddenly blew into the room . |
| 20 | A wisp of pale green fire suddenly spurted into existence , hovering below them on the steps . |
| 21 | Again and again apparently rational lines of argument suddenly congealed into a porridge of images , while some texts dispensed with argument completely and the mind was left to wrestle with Olympian assertions that left Edward 's own rhetoric sounding like cool logic . |
| 22 | The rest of the conversation suddenly fell into place . |
| 23 | ‘ If I were the Pentagon or the White House I 'd be upset too if a US Air Force bomber or cargo plane , carrying a load of bombs , suddenly disappeared into the sea . |
| 24 | They were at DisneyWorld , on the last day of their American trip when Alison , 30 , suddenly went into labour . |
| 25 | He sprang into action when wife Ann , 26 , suddenly went into labour in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Shell-fire suddenly tore into the roof of the mobile boardroom . |
| 28 | At dinner in the garden one evening , for instance , two perfectly ordinary businessmen suddenly burst into a Verdi duet . |
| 29 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 30 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |