Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] have [be] surprised " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of tonight 's entertainment looked to me unreal , something like a banqueting scene of an opera , and I should not have been surprised to find the capon under my knife to consist of cardboard and my ‘ goblet of sparkling wine ’ full of emptiness with a rim of cotton wool to represent the foam of the champagne that was not there . |
| 2 | When I asked what her name was , I should not have been surprised when she replied clearly : ‘ My name is Lydia . ’ |
| 3 | Morrissey was deeply upset by the ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ episode , but he should n't have been surprised . |
| 4 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 5 | There were date palms in the middle ground and I should n't have been surprised to see a pyramid in the distance . |
| 6 | Most of them were senior members of the Institute and Hall could well have been surprised to find himself confronted with a group of men bound together by a considerable degree of common purpose and understanding . |
| 7 | The participants from Eastern Europe may well have been surprised at how lightly their Western counterparts were ready to sacrifice the traditions of the great east Berlin museums . |
| 8 | The , possibly , stodgy readers of the Sunday Telegraph may well have been surprised by Susannah Herbert 's enthusiasm : ‘ Jilly Cooper breaks all the rules of romantic fiction in The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous . |
| 9 | Millwall chairman Reg Burr says : ‘ Many people would not have been surprised had he been sent off . |
| 10 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 11 | Jane Austen , one feels , would not have been surprised to hear that Mr Evelyn both employed and reformed offenders among the poor . |
| 12 | If her father had told him that he had also to hold the rod in his hand and drop the line into the water she would not have been surprised . |
| 13 | She would not have been surprised if The Towers had had dungeons to store them in . |
| 14 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 15 | It was only in 1989 that anything was heard publicly of schemes to repair the damage , though anyone familiar with the gossip in contracting circles would not have been surprised to learn of NIOC 's plans to tackle the subject : first , to re-operationalize Abadan itself — apparently entirely with home-grown resources and without recourse to imported knowhow — where the damage was assessed at $9 billion , and , second , to add new refineries at Arak and Bandar Abbas . |
| 16 | Flaubert would hardly have been surprised at the lazy rush to understand . |
| 17 | With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry . |
| 18 | He would n't have been surprised . |
| 19 | She would n't have been surprised to see her hair had all turned white ; but it was the same face looking back at her . |
| 20 | Culley would n't have been surprised to see a rat-maze in the corner . |
| 21 | She would n't have been surprised to see the wall behind it char and burn . |
| 22 | If he had wiped his mouth with his hand then , she would n't have been surprised . |
| 23 | It would n't have been , if they 'd had any furniture in when we , when we first got in I would n't have been surprised to see it painted round there as well . |
| 24 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 25 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 26 | Having watched the ignominious departure of Mr Jakes , the president himself — which Mr Husak had become — can hardly have been surprised that his own head was now being demanded on a platter . |
| 27 | She can hardly have been surprised that the spotlight stayed on her marriage — her husband is , after all , the man who will be our next king . |
| 28 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |