Sentence examples similar to take unawares from inspiring English sources

I would hope the committee was not taken unawares.

Now, there's new technology available that could help protect them from being taken unawares.

They can't have been taken unawares by the level of interest, surely?

"Taken Unawares: Snapshots of Celebrated People" was a page in the tabloid Penny Pictorial.

The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the national security adviser, John Bolton, are reported to have been taken unawares.

Earlier traders in New York had been taken unawares when the Department of Commerce published its third estimate of US first quarter growth.

It's hard to believe that the United States was taken unawares by developments in the Middle East, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice maintains.

Shocked by the sudden and unexpected death of one of her patients, from cancer, psychotherapist Marion Steel finds herself taken unawares, and needing time to reflect.

Once in a while, the reader is taken unawares by the author's reverting to standard English, especially in the lyrical "stream of consciousness" passages that describe the coming of summer and its sensual and sensory beauties.

"It is so full of talent and fairly well constructed but I wish I knew why the hero is so dreadfully cross and what about?"There is a wonderful sketch of Sir Winston Churchill, whose photo is taken unawares.

Administration officials – who also appeared to have been taken unawares by the allegation – were able to give few other supporting details, and pointed instead to repressive actions by the Chinese government to suppress domestic dissent.