Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] surprised me " in BNC.
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1 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
2 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
3 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
4 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
5 | It would n't have surprised me if she had walked across and jumped out of the window . |
6 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
7 | ‘ It would n't have surprised me if he had sat up and shouted ‘ Geronimo ’ as he went , ’ he said . |