Example sentences of "not [verb] [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 | Millwall chairman Reg Burr says : ‘ Many people would not have been surprised had he been sent off . |
| 4 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 5 | Jane Austen , one feels , would not have been surprised to hear that Mr Evelyn both employed and reformed offenders among the poor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She would not have been surprised if The Towers had had dungeons to store them in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Morrissey was deeply upset by the ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ episode , but he should n't have been surprised . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He would n't have been surprised . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Culley would n't have been surprised to see a rat-maze in the corner . |
| 16 | There were date palms in the middle ground and I should n't have been surprised to see a pyramid in the distance . |
| 17 | She would n't have been surprised to see the wall behind it char and burn . |
| 18 | If he had wiped his mouth with his hand then , she would n't have been surprised . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |