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The girl, who had her head on the boy's shoulder, looked around in surprise.

He looked at me in surprise.

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Patton once advised, "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

" I suspected that he was telling a lie, but that didn't surprise me.

Taken by surprise, I could not speak a word.

The steepness of the climb took us by surprise, so we'd had a pretty good workout by the time we got to the top of the mountain.

He had a look that mingled fright with surprise.

Everyone was expecting a guilty verdict, but the severity of the sentence was somewhat of a surprise.

He arched his eyebrows in surprise.

The movie has a number of interesting twists in the plot, and an ending guaranteed to surprise everyone.

She laughed cheerfully when she opened the door, and saw her surprise party.

To my surprise, her reply was flatly negative.

In 1977, the Rolling Stones did a couple of surprise gigs at a small club in Toronto called the El Mocambo.

The main race yesterday was no surprise.

That's the kind of race you can bank on.

Her surprise was so great that she could not speak.

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