Example sentences of "[vb past] suddenly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judaism became suddenly known — and respectable . |
| 2 | But then United suddenly fought back ; in the eighty sixth minutes , a great scramble in the Wolves goalmouth and Mark Stein , the substitute who had replaced Martin Foyle , shot home from close range . |
| 3 | Waves of anger jolted through him and his face seemed suddenly magnified while it flattened like a jellyfish . |
| 4 | She went towards him , for he seemed suddenly spent , a man getting old far out to sea , trying to swim . |
| 5 | Woil looked around him and seemed suddenly confused and unsure of himself . |
| 6 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 7 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 8 | It was followed by a strange feeling of detachment , as if she 'd suddenly gone somewhere else . |
| 9 | What a place to be … and yet that evening she 'd suddenly felt certain it was where she 'd find Adam . |
| 10 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 11 | She put her hand in her pocket as if she 'd suddenly remembered something . |
| 12 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 13 | She was trembling , perhaps because she 'd suddenly remembered that the origin of the toast she had just drunk lay in the Viking custom of saluting each other by drinking from the skulls of their enemies . |
| 14 | She 'd suddenly found herself staring at his hands , which were clenched together behind his back . |
| 15 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 16 | His hands dropped down to his sides , his head hung down like he 'd suddenly dropped asleep . |
| 17 | Let me give another very recent example while these rather alarming , in some ways , events were going on in Arkensaw , the London Times — not the Sunday Times now — had as a centre page article by a distinguished cosmologist , Fred Hoyle , announcing to a startled world that he 'd suddenly acquired some doubts about evolution . |
| 18 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 19 | For the first time since she 'd appeared she said his name , tentatively , as though in this darkness she 'd suddenly doubted he was real . |
| 20 | I 'd suddenly started to feel , not sorry for him but — feel for him . |
| 21 | ‘ Such hard luck on him — to find he 'd suddenly got a wife who was all the things he loathes — hysterical , difficult , clinging … |
| 22 | Angelina looked suddenly shaken . |
| 23 | Shiona felt suddenly strengthened by her decision . |
| 24 | The lift landed with a ‘ clump ’ but as the lift door began to open , ‘ I enjoyed it too , ’ he answered gravely , Fabia felt suddenly mesmerised , and his head started to come down . |
| 25 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 26 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 27 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 28 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 29 | The explosion of joy that had suddenly burst through her at the thought of seeing him , at the thought of being with him , for a moment had overcome her senses . |
| 30 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |