Sentence examples for surprise down from inspiring English sources

To assume any less growth in spending over that period would be unrealistic and would risk a nasty fiscal surprise down the road, White House officials said.

"The resegregation is happening faster, surprise surprise, down South than anywhere else.

Do some research online to find out which financial institutions are truly offering the best deals before applying so that you don't risk facing an expensive surprise down the road.

A move by Gove to support a British exit will not surprise Downing Street, which has been fully briefed on his indecision in recent weeks.

But to Blue Tomorrow's surprise, Downing Street officials urged that MPs be summoned right away for Wednesday's marathon session – much longer than any previous one.

Manford admitted that while he "didn't vote for her husband", he was rather keen on Mrs Cameron and after finding her "charming and just lovely, dead nice, dead chatty," he's surprised Downing Street don't "roll her out more".

It should not, thus, come as a surprise that Downing Street has taken the convenient option of delaying the report if it does, indeed, give the brothers a clean bill of health.

He stood up, shook his head in some kind of surprise, sat down again.

… This scene contains many of the humorous elements listed: surprise, falling down, absurdity and sound.

After he set up the camera, then to my surprise got down on one knee, I was in shock but of course said, 'yes!'yes

In part, the absence of surprises is down to some decent progress in the last year.