Sentence examples for been surprised to recognize from inspiring English sources

In Manhattan on a Saturday night, some have been surprised to recognize the bartender at the Royalton Hotel in Midtown or the singer at a Lower East Side klezmer concert.

At another Starbucks on West 41st Street, he was surprised to recognize a woman he had arrested for shoplifting a few years ago, so he took a seat and watched her.

When I reviewed Hopper's Truro work, I was surprised to recognize houses from the immediate neighborhood of a cottage my wife and I moved and renovated a few years ago.

He knows a lot of writers who are surprised to be recognized.

Readers as ill versed in Catholicism as I am may be surprised to learn that the process of recognizing a saint has not changed much since the 16th century.

" "I want people to enjoy exciting, funny detective stories and I want them to be surprised by recognizing themselves and their own culture in an African culture, "said Bricknell when he described his hopes for the series.

She was surprised that he recognized her voice.

"I was surprised he even recognized me," Palmer said in a telephone interview.

Where were you most surprised to be recognized?

"I walked right up to him — I'm surprised he didn't recognize me.

He spent a weekend in Manhattan in January and was surprised when some people recognized him.