Sentence examples for received a surprise from inspiring English sources

With Ronald Reagan's election a year later, Thomas received a surprise job offer to join the Administration as the assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education.

Finally, each student received a surprise memory test.

He's also received a surprise amount of support, he says, from the British public.

Mr. Bongianni said, though, that he had received a surprise visit from the restaurant authorities.

After the surgery, Ms. Kislevitz, 57, of Ridgewood, N.J., received a surprise: the cartilage had not been torn after all.

While he was recovering from knee injury in California, Kooiman received a surprise visit from Mexican super-agent Carlos Hurtado.

On Thanksgiving Day, his mother, Mary Breme Rezaian, received a surprise phone call from the Iranian prison.

once again summoned the nation around its television sets to receive a surprise message.

A demure young woman, living quietly in the family home, receives a surprise visit from her uncle Charlie.

Not long after receiving a surprise visit from his father, the son is abruptly summoned back to Copenhagen.

In "The Plot," the Convention is deadlocked until, on the twentieth ballot, the weary electors receive a surprise visit.