Example sentences of "[noun sg] suddenly [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 2 | The hospitaller suddenly stepped back in panic as the bear sprang into life , towering above him , its great paws clawing the air . |
| 3 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 4 | He had to muzzle it now , for example , as the Collector suddenly bounded out of his three-legged chair and away . |
| 5 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 6 | Racal 's share price suddenly shot up by almost a third , despite the fact that the partial flotation would have absolutely no effect on the already-excellent prospects for Vodafone . |
| 7 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 8 | Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice . |
| 9 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 10 | Her face suddenly lit up with understanding . |
| 11 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |