Suddenly out of the blue my 35 kg kelpie Jessica bolts from around the other side of the house nearly knocking me of my feet. |
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It's a bit worrying because this guy actually knows where I live and has dropped round out of the blue but not for a long time. |
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Philip's voice is completely casual, like he's just had this sudden thought out of the blue. |
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This came out of the blue, and we are most upset that a warning wasn't given. |
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Stephen phoned out of the blue, haven't spoken to him in over three months! |
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Then, last month, I got a phone call out of the blue from one of the photo managers at Head Office. |
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After six weeks the trail seemed to be going cold when a phone call came out of the blue. |
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Rarely does a profit warning come out of the blue like the subsequent share price reaction suggests. |
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As for how the opportunity was spotted, it was a complete bolt out of the blue. |
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Than he calls me up kind of out of the blue and it's just this weird, random kind of thing. |
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This hasn't been done out of the blue and they have been given every chance to stop doing it. |
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Now, out of the blue, my own bank, write to me to tell me that they may have inadvertently ripped me off. |
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His was a performance out of the blue but one that he certainly can repeat again as he grows in confidence. |
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I have been having a lovely girly chat with my good friend Bryony who called me out of the blue. |
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Quite frankly, this piece of research is so unexpected, so out of the blue, it beggars belief. |
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He was working as a meat products salesman during the 1960s, when his chance to run the pub came out of the blue. |
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The yellow card came out of the blue and I do not believe there was any warning from the referee. |
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The problem, however, is that much sharper traffic slowdowns can come as if out of the blue. |
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These increases have come like a bolt out of the blue and some of our tenants were reduced to tears. |
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Indeed, if he dismisses it with a disbelieving laugh, we expect to see the bad luck drop on him out of the blue. |
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The resignation did not come out of the blue, but it still sent shockwaves through the international community. |
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We are quite worried about this development as it has come out of the blue. |
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From out of the blue, a posse of divers with flashguns blazing descends on the scene. |
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Acute injuries, such as a sudden sprain or muscle pull, seem to happen out of the blue. |
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He says he received no prior warning from the local authority and that the news was a bolt out of the blue. |
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In the winter of 1999 she received a phone call out of the blue from someone looking for an artist to paint a custom hex sign for a new barn. |
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To much of the global community, the events of November 1938 came like a bolt out of the blue. |
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Because all of a sudden, almost out of the blue, the summer had ended and college was the immediate future. |
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When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting. |
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But imagine being in a situation where out of the blue, your heart starts racing so fast that it can't pump blood around your body properly. |
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It is a bit weird to phone her up out of the blue and just ask her out, unless you look like Brad Pitt that is! |
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Residents are being warned that they may get a call out of the blue asking for security and pin numbers enabling thieves to clone bank cards. |
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He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue. |
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It should be remembered, however, that the legal conditions now in existence did not appear out of the blue. |
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Completely out of the blue this dog made an unprovoked lunge at Atlas and Montgomery, who I did have on a lead. |
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Then, a few weeks ago, out of the blue, he received a telephone call from someone at the University of York. |
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At that moment Jed came from out of the blue, pulled me away from Leo, and sucker-punched him right in the jaw. |
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On August 15, 1971, more or less out of the blue, President Nixon declared a freeze on wages and prices. |
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This particular warning came out of the blue and there must be a worry that there is yet more to come. |
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On one dive, as we drifted along with the current, passing the school of hammerheads, an 8m whale shark came out of the blue towards us. |
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Then out of the blue another fast metal song began and the people around them began to mosh again. |
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The second turning of the gyre came, literally, out of the blue. |
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Then one day, out of the blue, we're going for a drive to dinner arguing about nothing and he stops the car and pops the question, giving me a ring. |
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We were halfway through a dive when a beautiful eagle ray came flapping out of the blue, skimming over us and plunging into the sand to pick up some lunch. |
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We were told that some of YESAB's determinations appear to come out of the blue, with no chain of reasoning behind them. |
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The audience members show sympathy for these two sad kids until, out of the blue, a man starts heckling. |
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Readers appear, seemingly out of the blue, and more than make up for the exhaustions. |
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My classmate had such a gift for asking jarring questions out of the blue. |
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But in 2004 no new French talent soared out of the blue to echo the success of Ms. Bruni's best-seller Quelqu'un m'a dit. |
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Canada is a democracy, so important decisions can't just pop out of the blue. |
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The children would be sitting there watching television and they'd get hit out of the blue. |
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This is not something that our government suddenly decided to adopt out of the blue. |
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It started when pat Morrissey shot a magnificent goal as he lobbed the keeper from the right side to leave the ball in the left corner of the net with a goal out of the blue. |
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The invitation, offered with a thin smile, comes out of the blue. |
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On my next dive, I was just mellowing out and watching the occasional fish swim by when, out of the blue, came another whale shark, swimming straight towards me. |
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Just when Michele pledged to get on with her life and stop mooning for her mechanical engineer, out of the blue he asked her out for dinner and proposed. |
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I spent an hour sprinting to four drug stores, three of which were sold out of the blue non-latex nitrile gloves I sought. |
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The government's interest in sexual health has not come out of the blue. |
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He called me yesterday, out of the blue, basically to offer me some work. |
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This accusation about Nicky has come like a bolt out of the blue. |
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It would be an understatement to say that it was a bolt out of the blue. |
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We have been negotiating for 18 months and then this came out of the blue. |
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He just suggested it out of the blue, and we followed it on a hunch. |
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The decisive turning point in the scholarship of early El Greco came out of the blue in 1983, when the Dormition of the Virgin shown in the London exhibition was found. |
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Liam Craig last night revealed he was two weeks from the scrapheap before St Johnstone offered him a lifeline out of the blue. |
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We expected to see a sailfish take to the air, but were instead treated to bolts of neon yellow sparking out of the blue water. |
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They might wish to join the EU earlier, completely out of the blue. |
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Such uncanny incidents waymark the book – none stranger than the letter that arrived out of the blue, the day before he finished the last chapter. |
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I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue. |
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Major American TV channels were quick to stir things up. The 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States were seen initially as provocation, an act of war out of the blue. |
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Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue. |
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Whether it's during a large summer storm or simply some local instability on a hot summer evening, lighting can seem to strike out of the blue in a dazzling display against the sky. |
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Most people feel flattered when called out of the blue by a headhunter. |
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Australia rang me out of the blue and that threw a little curveball. |
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On the other hand, let's say you've assumed the two of you aren't on gift giving terms yet. Then, out of the blue, your empty-handedness is met by a lavish gift. |
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These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor. |
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