Sentence examples for it startled him from inspiring English sources

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Bird jumped, you know, and it startled him and he eased out of the solo.

It "startled" him, Lyndon Johnson later said; it sounded like a "report or explosion," and he didn't know what it was.

It startled him.

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That image, the presentiment it carried, startled him out of his own morass, he said.

When I told Mays I already had his number, it seemingly startled him.

I yelled "BUDDY, YOU DID IT" and startled him.

It might have startled him, but it couldn't have hurt him badly.

He's trying to remember exactly what it was that startled him.

The sudden click of the hand jumping three or four notches always startled him when it came.

Nicholas Kristof steps up in yesterday's New York Times to answer a Swarthmore student's question that "startled" him: is it immoral to become a banker?

Louis van Gaal has been deluded recently to talk about United being genuine title contenders but it never seemed realistic and it should startle him that a team with Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Ángel Di María and Juan Mata could be so ineffective.

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