Example sentences of "suddenly [vb past] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 2 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |
| 3 | Their neighbour , the writer Julia Strachey , found them " congenial souls and seeing them does cheer one up " , although she recalled one evening when Eliot suddenly emerged in a dressing gown apparently " utterly distraught and Strindbergian , with his at-all-times remarkable manner accentuated into something ghostly and weird . |
| 4 | The sword must have noticed him , too , because it suddenly spoke in a voice like a claw being scraped across glass . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |