So he was genuinely surprised when he got the call from David Cameron telling him that was what had happened.

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He seemed genuinely surprised by my resistance to his brilliant idea.

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He seemed genuinely surprised that the cash-strapped voters didn't buy his idea of conquering the galaxy, but a prophet in his own land is always without honor.

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He surrounds himself by advisers who tell him what he wants to hear, and he may have been genuinely surprised by which way the United States came down.

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But a spokesman for Torbay social services said they had been "genuinely surprised" that they were to be visited by the taskforce because of their excellent track record for adoption.

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The reporter asking about Gen Y and their use of technology and social media was genuinely surprised to hear me suggest that to a Gen Y, texting was not a way to avoid intimacy in their conversations.

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Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

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Despite wearing jeans, we went anyway and was so surprised and touched by how genuinely nice everyone was to me, the underdressed American.

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