Sentence examples for surprised him as from inspiring English sources

The only predictable thing about him was that as soon as his work became the fashion, he would push on: so when city parks in the 1970s burst out in brightly painted metal, he puckishly turned his attention to brute chunks of raw steel covered in rust.Clay on the floorHe left sculpture utterly different from how he had found it; and this surprised him as much as anyone.

Feagles said Tynes's decision surprised him as well.

That spontaneous eruption surprised him as much as it did everyone else.

The twist, which changed Temple's film from one about impending death to one of rebirth, surprised him as much as anyone.

He had just heard that she died and this surprised him as he had thought of her as a historical personage.

What Small found surprised him: As they Googled, his subjects' brains lit up.

The speed of Hendy's move, after almost a decade as London's transport commissioner, underlines the government's desperation to get to grips with Network Rail – and left him as surprised as anyone.

I'm surprised someone as sharp as Nate just doesn't appear to get that.

"We were a little surprised as well.

It was not Tsonga's shot-making that surprised as much as Federer's failure to find a way back into the match.

But the truth is that many Slovenes remain quite surprised, as well as grateful, about what happened in Maribor in November, when Slovenia qualified for South Africa by upsetting Russia, 1-0, in the return leg of their playoff.