Sentence examples for surprise it worked from inspiring English sources

"Amazingly," says Sir Martin, "to everyone's surprise it worked".

On the second take, to everyone's surprise, it worked perfectly.

To his surprise, it worked, and, moments later, [email protected] was quietly born.

The first time I tried it, I was sweating and I doubt my tone was firm — it probably sounded more like pleading — but to my great surprise, it worked.

To Campbell's surprise, it worked.

To his surprise, it worked!

In her voice lessons Ms. Foster is often given classical repertory, a "great supplement to what I'm doing at night," she said, adding, almost with surprise, "It works a completely different vocal muscle!" Does she think about standard matters of vocal technique, like supporting her voice from her diaphragm?

Kiss him by surprise, it works.

"I was surprised it worked," he said of Sears' response.

For that reason, some researchers thought it unlikely that pre-exposure prophylaxis would protect drug addicts, and they were pleasantly surprised it worked fairly well.

Those who liked it were generally surprised it worked as a cinematic outing, and those who didn't tended to question it's raison d'être, like the Washington Post's Rita Kempley, who complained that Fight the Future felt like little more than "a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season".