Sentence examples for nearly surprised from inspiring English sources

But not nearly surprised as I was when realising we were looking after George Osborne's cat.

But Kwiatkowski nearly surprised them all with a sudden spurt just under the 1km-to-go kite.

Walters' snap shot nearly surprised Rob Green, who had to be at his best to tip over Crouch's dipping volley from distance, but he was exposed after 42 minutes when Marc Wilson won the ball from Townsend and sent Cameron Jerome away down the left.

Plus he uncorked a long second-half rocket that nearly surprised Ghana keeper Adam Kwarasey.

Riedesel left his camp at 3 am with a picked group of men, and was still behind Fraser when the latter arrived at Hubbardton near dawn and very nearly surprised elements of Hale's regiment, which were scattered in the early fighting.

The female students were nearly equally surprised.

Xu, who has shortened arms, sounded nearly as surprised.

Rousey, in what was supposed to be an easy defense of her bantamweight U.F.C. title, was knocked flat by Holly Holm, who seemed nearly as surprised as her opponent.

To judge by the State of the Union address this year, President Bush must have been very nearly as surprised as Dean was by Kerry's win and Edwards's strong second-place showing in Iowa.

Those warnings rarely, if ever, materialized, and the suicide bombings that do occur quite often in Afghanistan are nearly always surprise events.

Sixteen months after Mr. Obama surprised nearly everyone by picking her as secretary of state, the two have again surprised nearly everyone by forging a credible partnership.