Example sentences of "it surprise me " in BNC.

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1 I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away .
2 It surprised me too .
3 It surprised me to say that I was n't .
4 It surprised me too , ’ the senator confessed wryly .
5 It surprised me how long it took to make the change to HTV .
6 It surprised me , nevertheless , that in such a small place as Reine there existed a street so out of character with the rest .
7 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 .
8 It surprised me .
9 ‘ Oh , it surprised me , but I have n't seen it before . ’
10 Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood .
11 It surprised me but it could easily have been tiredness from being out so long .
12 It surprised me , ’ said Georgiades .
13 It surprised me that !
14 I mean it surprised me I thought oh yes
15 It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow .
16 ‘ Certainly , it surprises me : many people will change for £5 . ’
17 ‘ You know , ’ ruminates Shaun Ryder , frowning over his fifth pint , after a night of stilted soul-searching , six months of silence and a whole heap of rumours , ‘ it surprises me that people ever expected anything more from us .
18 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 . ’
19 It surprises me when he speaks with a Welsh accent between scenes .
20 We behaved this way in days of old empire so it surprises me not at all that Japan may now buy The Belfry , of Ryder Cup fame .
21 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 .
22 It , it , it , it , it 's , it , it surprises me that the amount of waste er that the proportion of , of the waste is , is , is fifty percent being er , er , er being builders ' rubble not to put too fine a point on it .
23 ‘ Even so , it surprises me . ’
24 The grown ups do n't want to know , it surprises me .
25 But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down .
26 It surprises me
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