Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] surprise me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels . |
| 2 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 3 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 4 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 5 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 6 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
| 7 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 8 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 9 | We shall return to this issue later , but it surprised me to discover that the population of Waltham Forest needed more expenditure per head for such deprivation than that of Cleveland and about the same amount as Knowsley ; similar observations stem from the comparison of Hackney and Westminster , although this is hampered by including components referring to ILEA . |
| 10 | It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow . |