Sentence examples for was rather startled from inspiring English sources
I was rather startled by the media interest.
Mr. Fry wrote that he was "rather startled" to find a scrum of journalists waiting for him when he emerged from the interview.
She told me later that she was rather startled, because when I had left earlier I had looked as if I was near death.
"We were rather startled that they admitted they didn't have any," Ms. Morella said.
It turns out this notion is utterly wrong, because when Martin walks into a room, I am rather startled to find that a stellar quality enters with him.
Dr. Sacks: My publishers were rather startled when I told them I wanted to revise the book so soon, and I've made about a hundred additions.
So he was, he says, "rather startled" when he read in the newspapers the money had gone to pay hotel bills around the world, buy suits and even pick up a £379.60 tab at Larry Flint's Hustler Club, a topless bar in New York.
However, I think I rather startled some by being one of three other people who turned up who *weren't* developers.
That's just a conjecture based on the rather startled picture of him from earlier.
One of the latter rather startled the newcomer, it being from an undertaking establishment.
