Sentence examples for somehow surprised from inspiring English sources

People couldn't help their initial reactions; they were somehow surprised how I looked, as if they were expecting some 6ft model.

There was a publication in the 1990s called Prison Life, which wrote about prison life and the prison experience, and they were somehow surprised when they were unsuccessful, because prisoners would rather not read about this in their leisure time.

The European Commission's chief spokesman, Margaritas Schinas, told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday, "here in the European commission we are somehow surprised that the UK is surprised that we are preparing for a scenario announced by the UK government itself".

They seem somehow surprised that English planning laws protect neighbouring residents so firmly; in America, Weiss believes "eminent domain" laws would be more favourable to a top-level sports team, which local authorities are usually desperate to satisfy.

What shocked him, he said, was that people kept using Yahoo, and that the political establishment was "somehow surprised that Russian hackers might want to see if they could impact the direction of our election".

The researchers in AAL are somehow surprised by the fact that several finitary and finitely algebraizable logics have a variety as its equivalent algebraic semantics, when the theory of algebraizable logics allows us in general to prove only that the equivalent algebraic semantics of a finitary and finitely algebraizable logic is a quasivariety.

She hoped he would somehow surprise her at the last minute; her friends clung to similar hopes.

It also has to somehow surprise me, maybe make me laugh or feel uncomfortable, usually be beautiful, and always be unexpected.

Somehow she surprised us".

So Ms. Trumpetto was intrigued but somehow not surprised on Tuesday night when 350 officials from 170 different Hudson Valley nonprofit organizations took up every available parking spot at a local reception hall and filled a large banquet room on the Hudson, ice floes drifting by outside like frigid parade floats.

Hearing him talk about his likes and dislikes, one is somehow not surprised to learn that his favorite poem the one from which he says he's drawn the greatest inspiration is William Henley's "Invictus," whose last lines are: "I am the Master of My Fate; I am the Captain of my Soul".