adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
die suddenly
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She died suddenly of a heart attack, in Amsterdam.
suddenly disappear
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The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
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As Katherine watched them and listened, she was suddenly aware that her father seemed different than he did in New York.
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Converse was suddenly aware that he had stopped sweating.
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There is a gap again because I stopped work, suddenly aware that an alien indignation was invading my soul.
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Instead he seemed rather average, and I was suddenly aware of his increased age.
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He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell.
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He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness, the smashing of stone joining the cry.
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Tom was suddenly aware that it was raining, that thin, gray sheets of rain were slapping against the window-panes.
■ VERB
appear
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If a bear suddenly appears , the goats head for precipitous ledges where the less agile predator can not follow.
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The girl screamed, and a stout, red-faced man suddenly appeared behind her and opened the door wider.
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It seems odd that this extra day should suddenly appear every Leap Year but there is a good reason.
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The crag appears suddenly on the riverbank, monstrously overhanging and shockingly red.
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The two policemen suddenly appeared behind her and pulled her away from the window.
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It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you haven't worn since it came back from the cleaners.
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About half way through the fifty-kilometer journey, the Dolomites suddenly appeared as the mist lifted.
ask
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Remember that it is not a race, so do not suddenly ask your horse for maximum speed.
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Richard asked suddenly , impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
become
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Upon completion of this much work on the proposal, some students suddenly become reluctant to carry the project any further.
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People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards.
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This muting of campaign controversy does not mean the global agency has suddenly become a political favorite.
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Sorrel, asleep on the settee, suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen.
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Solemn works printed on shirts suddenly become funny or ironic.
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Earth would suddenly become vivid and real with a vibrancy of colour and texture.
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After years of inconsistency, he has suddenly become dependable, recording 14 double-doubles in the 21 games before Thursday night.
begin
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Kelpie looked at.her with his bright beady eyes, and then suddenly began to chirp.
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The boat suddenly began to lurch and sway.
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Three years ago she suddenly began to produce gold leaf.
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Burlap-covered bulletin boards were installed for notices, which Alvin would suddenly begin to rearrange whenever he was choreographing.
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She looked warily at him, her pulses sounding an alarm, and was taken aback when he suddenly began to laugh.
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The defense attorney, in the midst of arguing his motion, suddenly began gagging an coughing.
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It's only if something suddenly begins to move that you start asking questions.
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During testing, the paint suddenly began to fail.
change
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It was as if his life had suddenly changed and he had put on years.
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But the arrival of the new Negro teacher suddenly changed things.
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In a dream, things change suddenly , without reason.
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The environment suddenly changes and what has been the dominant species rapidly dies out to be replaced by some other species.
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Mark Antony has suddenly changed his personality ie he has become tough, perceptive.
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The atmosphere had suddenly changed in the windowless little room, and she was interested to know why.
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One is if the providers of finance suddenly change their behaviour.
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Consider a young man whose world has suddenly changed .
come
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The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt, betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it.
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A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
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The media are suddenly coming alive with faith and life issues.
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But all their exploits and explorations suddenly came to an abrupt end.
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My lungs suddenly come sharply through from behind my engaged brain, reminding me that I am not a fish.
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The rain came suddenly and a hot wind, as if some one had opened a furnace door, hurled it against the car.
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Illness and death came suddenly: it was as if, over many years, she had simply worn herself out.
decide
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She suddenly decided to have it chopped off.
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On Nov. 23, the president suddenly decided to call a meeting.
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There'd be a Chlamydia Weaver toddling around today if her mother hadn't suddenly decided that Sally was easier to spell.
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Then, one day, after fifteen years at the practice, I suddenly decided to abandon the law.
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For example, consider a simple situation such as a person suddenly deciding to start walking.
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What would you do differently if you suddenly decided to be guided by the spirit of love where you work?
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If nervous consumers suddenly decide to save more and spend less, a serious recession could follow.
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By suddenly deciding that the dog needs a walk.
die
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Then Minnie - terrier type again, very loving, strayed a lot, died suddenly , probably ate something.
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In the spring of 1938 the old doctor who had attended her died suddenly and a young man took over the practice.
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Erich Maria Remarque told the story of three men he had known whose wives died suddenly in accidents.
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He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.
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A few months after the father left, the mother died suddenly .
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He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962.
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Lehman was at Dana-Farber for cancer treatment when she died suddenly on Dec. 3, 1994.
drop
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It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
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The penny suddenly drops , and he is revealed as the one who makes sense of life.
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Tennessee Williams has written about several football heroes who suddenly drop through the floor at the height of their prowess.
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It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured.
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He dropped suddenly on to the edge of the bed.
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He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee, placing the left hand on the floor in front of him.
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Several calls have been eventually connected but are suddenly dropped by the system for no apparent reason. 4.
feel
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You feel sicker, then somehow you emerge feeling suddenly light and rested.
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He suddenly felt cold but he could also feel the sweat running down the sides of his face.
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He started past her, suddenly feeling as giddy and lightheaded as a thieving boy.
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I suddenly felt so much older and so tired all the time.
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The rector felt suddenly weakened, as if the anger had seeped into his own bones, his own spirit.
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My chest feels suddenly empty, in spite of the pressure.
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But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
find
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Why did Delaney suddenly find he was suspicious about the meteorological report?
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What is significant is that vast organizational conglomerates suddenly found themselves saddled with the consequences of years of exclusionary and inbred policies.
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Corbett took his seat, trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing.
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She felt like a person driving down a one-way road who suddenly finds herself confronted by another car hurtling toward her.
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Will the forgotten peasants suddenly find that some one has remembered them?
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To make it to safety, the new environment in which we suddenly find ourselves must be understood.
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She suddenly found it much easier to breathe.
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He reminded Dexter of a panic-stricken mole who had suddenly found himself trapped outside his burrow.
look
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With so many other potential challengers struggling, United are suddenly looking the team most likely to win the Premier League.
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They look suddenly ridiculous to me, all wrong for the desert.
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Cymbeline Bishop looks suddenly small and, though green to me, white.
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He looked suddenly stricken, although I did nothing to betray his lapse.
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That is not because the economy looks suddenly resilient.
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The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
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He suddenly looked very large and threatening in the doorway.
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He suddenly looked and felt like a bit of a fool.
realised
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He hardly knew him, he realised suddenly .
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He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom.
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The friar suddenly realised that Cranston's claim that Allingham was murdered was really a piece of pure guesswork on his part.
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Or at least, that was what they wanted him to think, he suddenly realised .
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Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden.
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She suddenly realised how close she was to the fortune-teller's shop and an impulse drew her towards it.
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He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there.
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Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself!
realize
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I realized suddenly that this was all.
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Gabby felt tears sting her eyes, suddenly realizing the full force of what was happening.
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I suddenly realized that I was going mad too, that he was wickedly wickedly cunning.
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He only wished again for help and then suddenly realized he was wishing for Cynthia.
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I've suddenly realized how bizarre this situation is.
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Glover suddenly realized that he linked both this boy and Lois with the end of his privacy.
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I suddenly realized she was talking to me.
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I tried to sound composed, not to show courage but because I suddenly realized it was simply the only alternative.
remember
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Then she suddenly remembered that they must all be at church.
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Fearless until now, I suddenly remembered the reason why pressure cookers had fallen out of favor.
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Corbett suddenly remembered his last meeting with the nuns at Godstowe and his heart began to pound.
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I suddenly remembered I had not asked him the price of the repairs.
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Brian propped himself up on his elbows, suddenly remembering that the alarm had gone off.
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It was like a forest, and I suddenly remembered the story Janie had read us.
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He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers.
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Jessica was yet another contentious subject my sister and I best avoid, I remember suddenly .
seem
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It was he now who seemed suddenly embarrassed, ill at ease.
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Even the quality of the afternoon light seemed suddenly flat and dull.
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What with cursing priests and so very many sick people, the world suddenly seemed an unkind, unhappy place.
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It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure, something I'd one day soon be telling everyone about.
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He had his arm around her, but she suddenly seemed distant, lost in the movie.
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He could have forced the window in time, anyone could, but he seemed suddenly to think better of it.
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It's funny, but when the lights come on, it suddenly seems more dark in the park.
start
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My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me.
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During a visit, Michael suddenly starts screaming.
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It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly .
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As the wasp hovered near, the caterpillars suddenly started flailing from side to side.
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Be understanding if he or she suddenly starts wetting the bed or crying for attention following a bad dream in the night.
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So there was no way crowds would suddenly start hitting the 35, 000-40, 000 level at the Coliseum.
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It seemed to the royal couple that he suddenly started to speak very hesitantly.
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J., two old government buildings suddenly started shaking.
stop
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Then, some time after midnight, the music suddenly stops .
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She stopped suddenly , her hand frozen in mid-air.
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The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
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She stopped suddenly when she saw a stranger in the kitchen.
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Back on the high-way, truck in front of me missed gear, stopped suddenly on incline.
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The form at the head of the stairs had suddenly stopped in its tracks, waiting, its back turned to John.
think
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Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it.
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I suddenly thought of stopping in and asking you about something.
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I suddenly thought - My dreams!
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There was something about those little feet, Guy thought suddenly , trying to pin down the memory.
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I put another case in front of it, an empty one, and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book.
turn
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She turned suddenly kind, pity on her face.
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And with that he stormed toward the hotel, then suddenly turned and raced back after her.
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He suddenly turned his head as though a disembodied finger had tapped his shoulder.
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Every time I get the hang of an idea it suddenly turns into something different and I turn into a fool!
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The Bears had better start grabbing on to something, anything, as the outlook on the season suddenly turned very grim.
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But she stunned producers when she suddenly turned down the role!
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When Ishmael decides to visit the chapel, the weather has suddenly turned cold and bleak and snowing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
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Suddenly there was a loud bang and all the lights went out.
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I suddenly realized that there was someone following me.
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Jane suddenly realized she was falling in love with him.
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Several years ago her husband died suddenly at the age of 64.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As suddenly , she rejected the idea.
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As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.
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Carl, as it happened, left our school almost as suddenly as he had come there.
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Having hundreds of millions of people watching on television suddenly made sense, for a moment.
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It tore past me, and I suddenly knew: the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul.
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You bring the glass up to your lips, but suddenly you think: What am I doing?