Example sentences of "had suddenly [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 2 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 3 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 4 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 5 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 6 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 7 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 8 | But she still did n't have any idea why he had suddenly barged back into her life like this . |
| 9 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 10 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |