Sentence examples for they were unexpectedly from inspiring English sources

In response the dogs lay down, expecting a command to do so – but instead, after a delay, they were unexpectedly given the "do it!" commanded.

Last season, they were unexpectedly promoted to Kakkonen, Finland's third level, but the club's annual budget is just €100,000 and it takes imagination to compete.

Though deeply infused with what the Portuguese call saudade (a sort of melancholy yearning), they were unexpectedly melodic and most enjoyable to listen to.

The night's young co-hosts, Anne Hathaway and James Franco, were unlikely to get the career lift many predicted when they were unexpectedly appointed.

They were unexpectedly pushed to Game 7 in the first round before defeating the Atlanta Hawks, and they were pushed to the limit again by the Cleveland Cavaliers before clinching on Sunday.

The other 208 Fifa members did all tune in against their better judgment, however, and they were unexpectedly rewarded with a very fine game that might be described as a pretty good advert for German club football.

They are unexpectedly consoling, too.

They are unexpectedly elegant affairs, as well as reflections of some of the new agrarian-centered, fresh-instead-of-deep-fried thinking that is cropping up in Southern kitchens.

This routine is interrupted when they are unexpectedly joined by Elster's daughter, Jessie, who is no less odd than her father (there's an "eerie depth in every stray remark she made").

When seen at great distances, corresponding to earlier times, they are unexpectedly dim, implying that the expansion of the universe has sped up since then, sweeping them unexpectedly far away.

Robert Lovejoy and his wife are losing sleep because they're unexpectedly losing their unemployment benefits.