Example sentences of "[noun] [be] suddenly [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In wild surroundings a natural amphitheatre containing two lochs is rounded and , just when the road seems to have lost direction and to be leading nowhere , there are signs of civilisation and cultivation , a perfect harbour is suddenly revealed and a steep descent ends at its terminus there . |
| 2 | The laughter was suddenly gone and a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth as she closed the door after her and leant back against it . |
| 3 | In mid-March the security forces were suddenly withdrawn and the island effectively left in the hands of the rebels . |
| 4 | Keelan was suddenly gone and Nurse Lambert was in her place . |
| 5 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |
| 6 | Another chapter was added recently when work on the long awaited new St Patrick 's Junior School was suddenly halted when the main contractor went into receivership at the beginning of this year . |
| 7 | It lay at the point where the fertile coastal plain to which Shurton belonged gave way to the austerely beautiful Quantock Hills , and in the meeting of those two quite different landscapes the village acquired something of its distinctive character : Stowey was a place always busy with the concerns of a lowland domestic world , but the gateway as well to a solitary hill country where man 's dominance was suddenly challenged and nature prevailed . |
| 8 | Maggie 's heart was suddenly thumping as they slowly left the floor . |