Example sentences of "all of a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And all of a sudden everyone 's saying , ‘ Oh my God , they 're so honest !
2 There was hopscotch , er and then all of a sudden everybody would start with hoops .
3 It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in .
4 Do nt be suprised to see marks of 7 or 8 for Leeds this week — as all of a sudden its becoming well known that we ve won 5 on the trot — and pretty hard to ignore us .
5 They saw that , you know the , this wa wash your face campaign and all of a sudden their cadres were pretty unpopular and they thought goodness me , we 're really doing something , we 're just doing something wrong and we 've got to try and mobilize support , we need a radical policy .
6 We 're all as teachers and parents familiar with a child gaining some new piece of information and all of a sudden their face lights up , their eyes become bright and they say , ‘ Ah !
7 All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning .
8 All of a sudden they heard the hum of a motorcycle coming towards them and they both saw a motorcycle being ridden towards the level crossing .
9 She wanted the turtle to tell her more about this Love Your Enemies scheme , and she would have asked him , but all of a sudden they heard a tremendous HAR-ROOMF !
10 We grew up in the '70s , and that 's what we were told , and then we grew up and all of a sudden they say no , you ca n't do that .
11 All of a sudden they have kids to put through college or they 're shacked up with some old wreck of a husband .
12 And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back .
13 And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think .
14 All of a sudden they start commentating again when the other side have possession .
15 All of a sudden they have become sympathetic to a work force , the very people who have been threatened with Government 's legislation on competitive tendering .
16 Er and all of a sudden they brought out the catalogue right ?
17 I , no I , I get the impression that , you know , everyone just everyone just kind of freaked out end of nineteen forty six forty seven and they were just , oh God what are we gon na do now , wh what can we do to get some more support , oh excellent , yeah , let's go for equal distribution , what a great idea and then all of a sudden they think oh no , it 's not , you know , perhaps it 's not such a good idea after all .
18 we have a quiet period for a while and then all of a sudden they all crop up together .
19 And all of a sudden they unlock them doors out there and they come running
20 They said all of a sudden they 've all grown up !
21 has n't started driving yet , but if for instance , erm , I 've left my car out , just left it in , in the way , cos nobody nobody said they were gon na go out and all of a sudden they wan na go out before I get up or something , fucking this cars reversing here , fucking everywhere , but that , and that
22 That 's right all of a sudden they 're
23 And then all of a sudden they 've disappeared , I mean
24 Like , we 'd be in mid-air , flying from one country to another country , and all of a sudden we 'd decide to fly to Venice for lunch .
25 An all of a sudden we 're told to pull together
26 Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ?
27 It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months ,
28 When we first went out there there was no trainees and then all of a sudden we got no , who did we get ?
29 Mm , I , I did n't know because all of a sudden we got into school and Mr Walker said erm , when you 've been in assembly go to Mrs Parry 's room and erm we watching a video .
30 At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou .
  Next page