Example sentences of "[noun sg] suddenly [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Julius 's mouth closed over hers again , his hands began a series of loving , teasing caresses , and Jessamy forgot everything except that this was her brilliant , stubborn , bullish husband whom she loved very much , and a bright future suddenly shone in front of them . |
| 2 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 3 | Lee 's stepdad suddenly appeared behind Philip . |
| 4 | The room suddenly hummed with tension . |
| 5 | As he watched , a young lad suddenly stooped behind Stewart and made a piggy-back , another lad shouldered him , and over he went , falling heavily while people nearest roared and laughed . |
| 6 | One winter night , as the mutt twitched away in front of the fire , his mind somewhere between Basingstoke and the twilight zone , a 100-watt light bulb in the standard lamp above his head suddenly exploded without warning ! |
| 7 | A series of bad falls , a year and a half on the sidelines , and a promising career suddenly headed for oblivion . |
| 8 | In 1750 , thanks to his Yorkshire connections , he was appointed as British resident in Brussels , an appointment suddenly revoked for reasons unknown . |
| 9 | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney 's distorted voice gave it life . |
| 10 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
| 11 | Shadshit 's voice suddenly rose to rehearsal pitch and he walked out of the toilet and into the dressing room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 15 | They had almost passed the Royale , when a thought suddenly occurred to Benny , and she stamped the driver 's foot to the brake pedal . |
| 16 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 17 | What Serbia had failed to achieve earlier in the 20th century suddenly looked within reach . |
| 18 | The rest of the conversation suddenly fell into place . |
| 19 | Second , heroin use has grown rapidly from a small baseline , and , whilst we shall have to describe the prevalence of heroin use ‘ hidden ’ from agencies , particularly in middle-class areas , it is not a long-standing activity suddenly discovered by labellers which is redefined as a problem . |
| 20 | She was just clipping jewelled studs into her ears when the tannoy system suddenly burst into life and the strident , adrenalin-boosting words filled the ship . |
| 21 | A wisp of pale green fire suddenly spurted into existence , hovering below them on the steps . |