It was really unexpected.

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NBC's adaptation is successful because it takes the central message from the BBC creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work, the well-used notion that life is really about the unexpected significance we find in everyday human interactions, and absorbs it into the modern American sitcom.

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So I mean, I think those are all really incredible kind of unexpected examples.

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They really go in opposite directions and very unexpected places.

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"Girls Aloud was a bit unexpected but it wasn't really work to be honest, " he said.

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It is when something unexpected goes wrong that a company really shows its mettle.

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Some commentators on Mr Thom's work question whether the momentous events of history can really be called catastrophes, using the word in the sense that they were totally unexpected interruptions of an ordered existence.

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