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"He was utterly surprised that it went the other way".
Amy Langford was utterly surprised when, at 42, she found out she was pregnant.
"The allegations that Hannah had sent some of the messages to herself highlighted the behaviour," he says, "I was utterly surprised by it.
I was utterly surprised then to find that politicians can sometimes behave well.
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"I've been utterly surprised by the attention it's received," Mr. Walker said by phone.
And yet for all of the expertise he's gained from reporting in the region (after a long stint in Iraq he became the Times's Beirut bureau chief), he admitted to being utterly surprised by the recent convulsions in the Arab world.
So, while Gray fully endorsed Thatcher's "militant position in the Cold War", he wasn't utterly surprised when the Berlin Wall suddenly went, like a tower block that had been demolished in a controlled explosion.
Reached a few days later, Roberts said that she was "utterly tickled pink," if not surprised.
"They were knocked over — utterly surprised by the contents of the book".
I was utterly convinced I would fall in love with her, all Scandinavian loveliness and Danish eyes of perpetual surprise.
Which was utterly false.
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