Sentence examples for there is a sharp intake from inspiring English sources

There is a sharp intake of breath.

There was a sharp intake of breath.

When Sacramone fell, there was a sharp intake of breath, not applause.

There's a sharp intake of breath and I fear a heart attack when I tell him that in London you can pay £4 a half.

He went on to use "n*****" to refer to Luis Suarez in a joke soon after and there was a sharp intake of breath from the people around me.

When I told her, there was a sharp intake of breath, as if I had answered "10 years" instead of "10 months".

There was a sharp intake of breath when West's rap intimated that Taylor Swift might sleep with him, now that he had made her famous – an obvious tactic to generate post-event social media fallout.

Their right flank was decimated by injuries to Héctor Bellerín, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott, while there was a sharp intake of breath when it emerged that Laurent Koscielny was only on the bench because of a hip problem.

There was a sharp intake of breath in the front row as the first outfit — a bra as a top and a soft, round skirt — seemed to break every fashion code this season of linear design and geometric patterns.

In Whitehall, there was a sharp intake of breath followed within hours by a statement from Downing Street that a new inter-departmental group would be set up to co-ordinate aid to the island.

"I remember there was a sharp intake of breath when Miranda won at the RTS (the Royal Television Society)," says Lucy Lumsden, Sky's head of comedy, who commissioned the show when she was at the BBC.