Example sentences of "he suddenly [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his correspondence with Theo he suddenly dropped his role of wise counsellor and turned into a beggar . |
| 2 | Maggie was silent and he suddenly took her arm . |
| 3 | He suddenly wished his grandfather was alive ; how he would have enjoyed showing him all this , listening to the old man and reliving it as it must have been . |
| 4 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 5 | He suddenly grasped her chin and tilted her reluctant face . |
| 6 | The train rumbled nearer , Ian was still jigging about on the parapet , he could see the smoke box lamp flickering , then as the train was almost on the bridge the smoke enveloped the structure as Ian was doing his Highland jig ; he suddenly lost his balance and fell down onto the smoke box frame , the force of the fall did its lethal work and killed Ian Watson . |
| 7 | Then as he pulled open the door of the Alfa Romeo and invited her to climb inside , he suddenly caught her arm and looked down into her face . |
| 8 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 9 | He suddenly pushed his fist against her chin in a gently bantering way , his attitude softened . |
| 10 | He suddenly bowed his head in his hands and began to weep . |
| 11 | In 1176 he suddenly changed his line . |
| 12 | At the fence , he suddenly sucked his stomach in and puffed his chest out . |
| 13 | Leaning forward , he suddenly tilted her face towards him and in the same movement covered her lips with his . |
| 14 | Before she could utter a word , however , he suddenly slid his hand down to hers and raised it to the candlelight . |
| 15 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 16 | I thought he wished to impart further information but , with the speed of a striking cat , he suddenly pulled his dagger , nicking my neck with its point . |