Sentence examples for said surprised from inspiring English sources

That was true of last month's shelling, which South Korean officials said surprised them because they had not expected an attack on civilian areas.

The series, however, will be coming back without its creator, Theresa Rebeck, the playwright behind "Seminar" and "Mauritius," an announcement that Mr. Borle said surprised him.

Officers issued 64 citations for hand-held cellphone use while driving in October, a number that Sergeant Berry said surprised officers.

But what police officers assigned to the Suffolk computer crimes unit said surprised them most about Antonio Centeri was the zeal with which the Westhampton Beach special education teacher pursued what he believed was a 13-year-old girl.

One finding of the qualitative surveys conducted in 38 countries that Mr. Plummer said surprised him was "the intensity of the negative response to the packaging and 'branding' by the media" of the coverage of the terrorist attacks, "not just here but in the rest of the world also".

"Of course!" he said, surprised.

"Sure," Mizuki said, surprised.

I said, surprised and suddenly agitated.

What he actually said surprised me.

Asked if he was surprised, Howard said, "Real surprised".

"Infallible?" said a surprised Mr. Chen.