Example sentences of "all of [art] sudden " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then all of a sudden , silence . |
| 2 | All of a sudden I started to laugh . |
| 3 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 4 | The glimpsed lawn seems all of a sudden to have shrunk , to shine like a tiny stage set , Harriet 's slumped figure centre stage and the consoling bulk of the cottage thatch as backdrop . |
| 5 | The novel handles the subject brusquely , whereas a notebook entry about Stavrogin back in the Spring of 1870 suggests a position midway between Svidrigailov and Kirillov : ‘ Sometimes he complains all of a sudden : ‘ I 'm bored ! ' ’ |
| 6 | In fact , in interviews , a quick reference to the home town frequently serves them as well as a rhetorical trick : by declaring their provinciality , they can remind you just how surprised they are to be attracting so much attention all of a sudden . |
| 7 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 8 | From being the centre of his attention one moment all of a sudden she ceased to exist . |
| 9 | ‘ Where have they all disappeared to all of a sudden , Maggie ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Let's go out , Billy , ’ Marie says all of a sudden . |
| 11 | Like when you think you just got things figured out , they change all of a sudden . |
| 12 | You know , one minute I 'm thinking Marie 's my girlfriend , and then all of a sudden she says she 's got a husband and that . |
| 13 | ‘ Hold on , Peter , ’ Colin says all of a sudden . |
| 14 | Peter asks all of a sudden . |
| 15 | I feel real tired all of a sudden . |
| 16 | The lady 's watching a wildlife programme I reckon , cos all of a sudden she says'I was bitten by a tiger once . ’ |
| 17 | I feel real weird all of a sudden , seeing it ai n't Annie . |
| 18 | The Captain stops writing and listens more intently to the speaker on the wall — the PIN net has got a lot busier all of a sudden . |
| 19 | All of a sudden , Jack saw that his father was a sort of hero — a maddening , eccentric hero but a man whose decency , courage and good humour were as unshakable as his sincere piety . |
| 20 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 21 | I did not believe it , I said I was healthy and then all of a sudden , this happened . |
| 22 | I did not believe it , I said I was healthy and then all of a sudden , this happened . |
| 23 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 24 | Leee Childers : ‘ It all grew too fast all of a sudden . |
| 25 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 26 | All of a sudden she decided . |
| 27 | All of a sudden the issue is not sex , but being seen . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're very suspicious all of a sudden , ’ Emily replied . |
| 29 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 30 | And then all of a sudden he said ‘ Poindexter ’ and then said ‘ I mean Beethoven . ’ |