| Adding to my surprise, and, indeed, to that of the viewers around the globe, was his sharp memory and mental alertness. |
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| My parents seemed to be fully awake and were not complaining of any aches and pains, to my surprise. |
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| Then, to my surprise, he tore the photograph in half, then fourths, then eighths and threw it in the garbage basket beside his bed. |
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| And then, to my surprise, he takes the extended hand, and shakes it firmly, like a politician, but without the greasiness. |
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| But to my surprise, instead he got out a battered pair of drumsticks, with which he beat a brief tattoo on the top of my head. |
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| Grams finally got us all in there, and much to my surprise, the walls did not ignite and burn to the ground. |
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| We peered inside the window, and to my surprise, I saw my mother and father dancing to old ragtime music. |
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| I held out a hand jokingly, but to my surprise, he actually gave the ten-dollar bill to me. |
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| Rather to my surprise, because fish only recently entered my daughter's menu on a regular basis, she chose the mullet. |
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| I checked the rota to see whose turn it was to scavenge, to my surprise it wasn't me for once. |
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| Eventually, much to my surprise, once Siana was about 8 months pregnant, Mary excused her from her duties so she could rest. |
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| During this period, I took to singing tipsily in Manhattan piano bars and much to my surprise strangers started praising my efforts. |
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| But, to my surprise, there was my dog, wagging her stumpy little tail and walking over to greet me. |
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| On the top of the viaduct, to my surprise I found a leafy pedestrian boulevard down which lots of Parisians were taking an afternoon walk. |
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| Much to my surprise, I saw tufts of bright green grass-like plants here and there emerging from the cold soil. |
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| But, much to my surprise, when I go to tot up the scores at the end of blogging all my records, this will not be featuring in any Hall of Fame. |
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| I noticed a slight quiver in the man's lips, and to my surprise, he dropped his gun, staggered away, and collapsed to his knees. |
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| I picked it up to see what I had hit, and to my surprise, it was Cam's journal. |
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| He came into the classroom and to my surprise he was fairly well groomed and dressed. |
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| The costs, as I found out to my surprise, are not recoverable in that situation. |
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| Much to my surprise, about ten minutes later that very same person came walking up to me with a big steaming plate of fresh yakisoba. |
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| Much to my surprise and amazement, I began to feel better after the second day of treatment. |
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| Much to my surprise, the government's parliamentary secretary claimed that what we are calling for is an early retirement plan. |
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| I put my ear to the door, expecting some foreign language from another planet, but to my surprise, my brain translated the words to me even though I had never heard them. |
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| I worried he might take offense but, to my surprise, Abu Hassar began to laugh too. |
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| Cathi looks terrified, but she's filmed it all unfalteringly, and Mel, to my surprise, actually looks quite impressed underneath her evident nervousness. |
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| Over the course of the next hour or so, the press corps thinned out until, finally, to my surprise, I was alone. |
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| I called the help desk last week for the first time to find out what is happening to my claim and to my surprise I got through to a lady first time. |
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| The priest, to my surprise, launched into a verbal assault on me. |
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| Nonetheless, I shall say a few words on a point which, to my surprise, has not really received the attention of the European Parliament. |
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| For example, much to my surprise, the cattlemen's association and the mining association supported the government approach on compensation. |
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| One day, to my surprise I found out that the Occupation Forces had arrested Mohammed at dawn. |
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| Since I have only two minutes left, much to my surprise, I will quickly move on to the other decision made by the Coast Guard, which is a beauty. |
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| Four years ago I began having back pain, I went to the doctor and to my surprise, my blood pressure and heart rate were outrageously high. |
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| But his message, to my surprise, was that he was, in a sense, the unicorn deprogrammer. |
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| I got pregnant quickly, to my surprise and delight, shortly before my thirty-eighth birthday. |
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| Much to my surprise, I discovered that people appreciate tobacco cessation counseling. |
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| I took the liberty of participating in the coed and competitive basketball leagues and found, to my surprise, that there are a lot of good players. |
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| For my part, after my BSC degree, much to my surprise, I won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, England. |
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| I had braced myself for what I was going to see, and much to my surprise it was 100 times better than I had anticipated. |
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| At the end of the year, much to my surprise, she got up in front of the class to present her speech and blew everyone's socks off. |
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| However, upon sitting down in it I found much to my surprise that it was extremely comfortable. |
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| But much to my surprise the puppy was always there, the breeder wondering if it kept him or not. |
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| On Thursday, we visited produce farms and, that same evening, much to my surprise, I defeated Mayor Jacques Lambert and became champion of the Mercier croquet tournament at Loiselle Park. |
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| But, to my surprise, my left hand now seems to suggest itself. |
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| The courtroom, to my surprise, was full of taut, weathered men wearing immaculate silk shirts and ten-gallon hats. |
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| And I found, much to my surprise, that I was being won over by the enthusiasm of the growers for something that I rather thought of as merely a basic commodity in the floristry world. |
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| Much to my surprise, he immediately agreed. |
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| Much to my surprise, people lined up to get advice. |
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| Much to my surprise, I had enough strength. |
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| During the last election campaign, I realized much to my surprise that constituents in the Montcalm area of my riding did not know they were part of the riding of Berthier-Montcalm. |
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| The MNR, the provincial ministry, came in and discovered the nest of a red-shouldered hawk, much to my surprise, on my property within 30 or 40 feet of the right of way where I wanted to build the road. |
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| In New Brunswick, I discovered, much to my surprise, because this could never happen in Ontario, they have municipalities that are half in one county, half in another. |
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| For example, just this morning I picked up a newspaper and there I read, much to my surprise, that the Minister of Finance was going to come to the aid of General Motors. |
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| When on Thursday evening, much to my surprise, I heard that the Conference of Presidents had decided to go ahead with the discussion after all, I informed all Members that I was still prepared to postpone the debate. |
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| Much to my surprise, I, an ordinary girl from the provinces, was accepted. |
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| Yet, much to my surprise, we got a positive answer a few weeks later! |
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| When I looked at the fork, much to my surprise the tines on the fork were longer than the file I was required to break off if I wanted to go on board the aircraft with it. |
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| But much to my surprise, I realized upon returning that what I really needed was a full week of playtime with them-a full week to enjoy one another's company outside the confines of schedules, students, and stress. |
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| However, much to my surprise, they all accepted my situation. |
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| But when the canoe was turned up to my surprise and joy there was the box containing my negatives, alcohol etc. entangled under the cross-piece of the canoe and thus did not fall out. |
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