Example sentences of "she [verb] a sudden [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made a sudden move towards me and from the doorway , Nigger started to growl softly . |
| 2 | In 1985 Dr Rosalind Maskell at St Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth , reported a noticeable fall in TMP resistance where two years previously she logged a sudden surge in resistance . |
| 3 | If , whilst suffering from the reaction , she received a sudden shock … |
| 4 | She heard a sudden tap tap . |
| 5 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 6 | She swallowed a sudden sense of panic . |
| 7 | And if she took a sudden dislike to a client , or observed one member behaving badly to another , her command , ‘ Out , cunt ! ’ , sent them packing . |
| 8 | Watching him , Lindsey could have sworn she saw a sudden brightness in his eyes before he was handing the infant over . |
| 9 | She felt a sudden flash of doubt , remembering the things Jeff had told her , and thought again what had occurred to her over that fateful cup of coffee . |
| 10 | Listening to the conversation in which Midnight had no part , she felt a sudden pity for him which increased the sense of gratitude already there , and was slightly surprised when the foppish Randall asked him a direct question : |
| 11 | She felt a sudden pang for John Tracey . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I have a salvation too , ’ and his voice was so low and his look so piercing that she felt a sudden clutch of fear , just as she had in the studio . |
| 13 | She felt a sudden burst of indignation against these overstuffed bigwigs cramming themselves with food , while she sat and starved . |
| 14 | Not that it would be at all necessary , she reassured herself as she felt a sudden burst of fright . |
| 15 | As she straightened up she felt a sudden pain like a knife being thrust into her lower back . |
| 16 | She felt a sudden desire to dye her hair blonde and keep dyeing it every day so that the roots would never show . |
| 17 | She felt a sudden burning in her body , and a smell , like fresh meat , a choking , unpleasant smell . |
| 18 | She felt a sudden stab of guilt , comparing him with Jenny . |
| 19 | She felt a sudden surge of anger . |
| 20 | She felt a sudden surge of anger . |
| 21 | It was a lovely warm evening , and as she drifted across the drawing-room she felt a sudden impulse to play some music . |
| 22 | She gave a sudden giggle . |
| 23 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |
| 24 | She was about to move off when she had a sudden thought . |
| 25 | She had a sudden change of mood , a swoop of the old affection . |
| 26 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 27 | She had a sudden flash of memory , a childhood nightmare after seeing a horror movie where the cave walls had suddenly become alive with rock men . |
| 28 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 29 | It was written on the back of the paint bill from the shop , and she had a sudden vision of Leo hunting frantically round in the dark for something to write on . |
| 30 | She had a sudden vision of her father 's face if he found David Markham on his doorstep and the ensuing battle when he found out what his proposals were . |