Sentence examples for which surprised us from inspiring English sources

"We've definitely seen an increase in interest in consumer electronics, which surprised us," said Sean Wargo, a senior analyst at the association.

"Last year, we noticed one month that E-Z Bake ovens were selling at $14.99, which surprised us because the rest of the year it was selling at $19.99," said Reyne (pronounced Ren-NAY) Rice, the senior toy analyst at NPD Group.

Neville added of Moyes: "He brought us back earlier than any other team in the Premier League, which surprised us all a little bit.

A one-way between-subjects ANOVA was conducted across the four scale conditions and revealed no effect of scale type, F 3,90) = 1.46, p = .230, η2 p = .05, BF 01  = 97.24, which surprised us, given the much larger numbers of observations in the four and five bins for the more coarse grain scales (4 and 5; see Appendix 2).

"If you read books also, I like reading books which surprise me in some way, or watch a movie which surprises us.

As biology divides into the two great kingdoms of plants and animals, so endings divide into the Closer, which seeks for some chorale-like finality, reuniting characters set apart and recapitulating, in a new key, themes already fully stated, and the Clincher, which surprises us by tying story-strings together in an unexpected way, or else throwing a new, ironic light on the whole recent past.

"Mark issued an absolute denial and Sheryl followed, which surprised all of us because we knew her denial wasn't true," a source familiar with the firm's work with Facebook told TechCrunch.

The Pope quit this week because of "advanced age," which surprised all of us who assumed that senility is a prerequisite of the job.

Dr Salim Abdulla, a principal investigator for the trial from the Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania, said: "The efficacy is lower than what we saw last year with the older 5 17 month age category, which surprised some of us scientists at the African trial sites.

She looked surprised, which surprised me.

"We took it off because it upset so many people, which truly surprised us.