Sentence examples for astonished before from inspiring English sources

Goddard just looks astonished before explaining that the "geek" thing is one of many misreadings of Hot Chip made in 2004 when they released their first album, a tribute to the US R&B and hip-hop they loved.

The affair redeemed Zola in English eyes: previously considered "the apostle of the gutter", the socialist trade unionist Herbert Burrows wrote, he "suddenly stands before astonished Europe as the champion of truth and justice".

Even the professional propagandist, who had worked in a dozen dictatorships before, was astonished.

He has astonished the scientific community before.

A worn-down working-class mother in an antenatal clinic asks pregnant Rosamund to hold her youngest while she sees the doctor; she's never held a baby before, and is astonished at its weight.

Shepard, video curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, was astonished when tickets sold out a month before the festival.

The biographer Eve LaPlante noted, "Her success before the court may have astonished her judges, but it was no surprise to her.

He was astonished - this had never happened to him before.

Before the applause, several seconds of astonished silence hung in the air.

We think a reader should be astonished by the end of a short abstract before a long reckless paper; it gets them to read paper.

With their wedding barely a fortnight away, Janet was astonished to learn of Smith's decision to run for parliament, having never before heard him discuss politics.