Sentence examples for surprise find from inspiring English sources

A surprise find at the same shop was a set of wood-inlaid table-tennis paddles, called Urban Picnic: Paddle, by Gareth Neal.

"You have people like [the Daily Mail and Independent columnist Stephen ] Gloversaying it was a great surprise find out that I'd been to Cambridge because I looked like I'd spent most of my life inside Wormwood Scrubs.

Ageing is a strange and foreign country described mostly in negative terms in guide books for those whom, much to their surprise, find themselves lost in its hinterland, often unsuitably dressed and without a compass.

In the Levi's store I do, to my surprise, find jeans up to a 44in waist, but they are horribly wide in the leg – bearing out the point made by Eley that clothes for larger men have to be carefully tailored.

Although they did, to no one's surprise, find chemicals the group had been testing out on the sheep population.

Despite the high degree of variability in DRB1-e2 we could, to our surprise, find 19 stretches of a length 3 13 bp that have no variation at all among different DRB1-e2 (Table 3 and Fig. 6).

Some friends, to my surprise, found my position weird.

Environmentalists, to their surprise, found that timber and mining were easier on the countryside.

In my 30s I moved to San Francisco and, to my surprise, found myself contemplating parenthood.

I looked down at our clasped hands and to my surprise found that I felt better.

I love surprise finds, so I'll recommend two debut novels that swept me away.