Sentence examples for astonishment then from inspiring English sources

My first response was astonishment, then panic, and then the odd sense that I'm sure you've experienced at some point: this disappearance is a message.

The complex triple take of her expression: first astonishment, then wicked complicity, and, finally, shame for either the dead poets, themselves, or both.

It was with astonishment, then, that I heard the Conservative party's pledge last week to ringfence the NHS budget and provide seven-day GP access for all.

That thing where he goes up to people, hugs them, registers their astonishment — then says, "And the funny thing is, no one will ever believe you!," and runs away?

One morning, Okwe is brusquely instructed to clean up a room where a guest has been with a prostitute, and has to unblock a lavatory overflowing with blood - a gripping scene in which nausea gives way to astonishment, then fear as Okwe realises that the obstruction is caused by a human heart.

The astonishment, then, is that the same writer who walked a gender minefield to electrifying effect in Oleanna should look so comparatively hamstrung here, as if merely to make such remarks would be to raise the temperature level of a 100-minute play (including interval) that remains tepid throughout.

The wives of several officials stood next to the altar and gawked, first in astonishment and then with growing respect for the intensity of the performance.

When Margot announced that Robert was there, everyone erupted in astonishment, and then they surrounded her and hustled her out of the bar as if she were the President and they were the Secret Service.

However, to my astonishment, she then writes another charming bestseller, the second book is shortlisted for the Orange prize and the devoted Anton, after much undeserved penance, is permitted to resume his role as chief cook and bottle-washer.

This diminutive woman, now known nationwide as "Grandma Cha Sa-soon," has achieved a record that causes people here to first shake their heads with astonishment and then smile: She failed her driver's test hundreds of times but never gave up.

Because nobody else would admit it, that 'I'm blowing it off to go to opening day.' They'd come up with come cockamamie excuse like 'I've got to go to a ribbon cutting.' " Advisers to the mayor's opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, reacted to the decision with astonishment and then delight.