Example sentences of "she was suddenly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Olga was fumbling with her food tray , struggling to unseal the utensils , she was suddenly lashed by a storm of hysterical accusations . |
| 2 | She was suddenly furious . |
| 3 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 4 | Now she was suddenly drained of all energy , as though spent by the effort . |
| 5 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 6 | She was suddenly tense and her voice came stiffly : ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 7 | Waiting in the airport she was suddenly aware of Nora striding towards her . |
| 8 | And she was suddenly denied job interviews and passed over for promotion , she said . |
| 9 | ’ Lewis sat opposite Hari and she was suddenly aware of how handsome he was . |
| 10 | She was suddenly overcome by the drama of her situation . |
| 11 | She was suddenly hungry , being young and having pushed Charlotte for several miles on a cold October afternoon , and longed for a bar of chocolate . |
| 12 | She was suddenly angry . |
| 13 | She was n't happy , she was suddenly plunged into all this pressure and it was a nightmare for her . |
| 14 | She followed Martin and Clelia into the house , and drank , eventually , a large gin and tonic , and then she went home on the bus , and when she got home she was suddenly and violently sick . |
| 15 | She was suddenly frightened . |
| 16 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 17 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 18 | It was lunchtime and she was suddenly very hungry . |
| 19 | She was suddenly close to tears . |
| 20 | As Katherine watched them and listened , she was suddenly aware that her father seemed different than he did in New York . |
| 21 | She was suddenly burning with the fire of a new task . |
| 22 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 23 | She was suddenly aware of the absence in her bed . |
| 24 | She was suddenly aware of approaching hurried footsteps , and scurried back into the last room she had passed , which was n't locked and turned out to be a storeroom for spare cables and bulbs for the lighting system . |
| 25 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
| 26 | She was suddenly aware how ridiculous she was becoming . |
| 27 | But if Betty began to weep Lydia would be , in humanity , bound to put her arm about her in consolation ; so she said earnestly that she was suddenly terribly hungry and could it possibly be time for lunch . |
| 28 | She was suddenly glad that Inspector Blakelock had done the documentation on the clunch pit murder . |
| 29 | She was suddenly downcast , obviously sharing the world 's lack of enthusiasm for Marius Steen 's son . |
| 30 | Her shoes began to pinch her toes , like a warning to run away , and she was suddenly desperate to go to the lavatory . |