Sentence examples for been surprised when the from inspiring English sources

He said he had been surprised when the shop had really started selling shirts.

He said he had told Stephen J. Hadley, then the deputy national security adviser, about it in a conversation in September or October 2001, and had been surprised when the Sept. 11 commission report made no mention of the operation.

Even the West Ham reserve goalkeeper admits to having been surprised when the manager turned to him rather than David Forde when Shay Given was injured one minute before half-time in the home match against Germany.

Despite having neither a base nor a popular program, the militants indulged a revolutionary rhetoric of violence — Bernardine Dohrn actually endorsed the murders committed by the Manson family — and they should not have been surprised when the authorities took the rhetoric for reality.

I don't know how they could have been surprised: when the Wii was super-hot, it was thus because of all of the "casual" gamers playing Wii Sports.

She wouldn't have been surprised when the National Museum of Antiquities, which she had founded as a tribute to a civilisation she admired, was looted soon after the US-led invasion.

He was surprised when the study did.

We were surprised when the wine tasted like vinegar.

"I was surprised when the ball came out".

Sixth-form pupil Amy Arnell said that no one was surprised when the change was announced.

"We were surprised when the patent search showed that this had not been done before".