Sunderland had sprung a surprise by beating Everton thus relieving some of their relegation concerns.
He had no idea that the flip comment would spark such surprise by Americans.
The selectors sprung a surprise by picking 20-year-old batsman Jean-Paul Duminy for the one-day squad.
But manager Jim Gannon sprung a surprise by dropping both full-backs, Stephen Saunders and Stevie Hammell.
The April results were worse than expected, but they were not a huge surprise by any means.
She noted that Israel had been taken by surprise by the timing and location of the announcement.
Certainly, Israel wouldn't have been taken by surprise by America's decision to allow Resolution 1860 to pass.
Schell and his police chief, Norm Stamper, seemed taken by surprise by the calamity caused by the demonstration.
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But umpire Daryl Harper again sprang a surprise by declaring it not out.
Lithuania, with whom Scotland drew 0-0 in Kaunas on Friday, caused a surprise by defeating Czech Republic 1-0 in Olomouc.
Time and time again, the Fed has been taken completely by surprise by the results of its actions and inactions.
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David Rendel was one of the most celebrated of the Liberal Democrats' run of surprise by-election winners in the early 1990s.
Hodgson sprung a surprise by including Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in his starting line-up, the 18-year-old winning only his third cap.
She induced expressions of surprise by interrupting concentration with a nonsensical question.
Last year, Hopewell sprang another surprise by revealing in its annual report that it had sold 2.5% of the superhighway to an undisclosed buyer.
Grassroots groups and philanthropists, many caught by surprise by the June announcement, have scrambled to raise funds and reach potential applicants since the policy was announced.
At least seven were injured from a group of about 20 mountaineers who were caught by surprise by the sudden eruption, Albay provincial Gov. Joey Salceda said.
And it's not a surprise by far the longest chapter in the economic report is on the rescue, just simply because this was an economy in a terrible crisis.
The second aspect of the US abstention on Resolution 1860 that is deeply disturbing is the fact that Israel's leaders say they were taken completely by surprise by the move.
Ronaldo, as expected, started on the bench - but Ferguson sprung a surprise by naming Evans in his starting line-up in place of Nemanja Vidic, who is suspended for the meeting with Chelsea.
But coach Mick Potter sprang a slight surprise by switching Sia Soliola to the pack, freeing him to recall fit-again Jonny Lomax on the wing and slip Meli inside to centre.
Despite its dominance, the Muslim Brotherhood appeared to have been caught by surprise by the strong showing of the more conservative Salafist movement, which advocates the adoption of strict Islamic law.
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Why did David Cameron take his own deputy as well as some senior figures in his own party by surprise by pulling the plug on all-party talks to create a new press regulator?
Beyond the possibility of ECB liquidity, the summit could also surprise by addressing necessary, long-term measures toward fiscal integration which are a precondition to give peripheral bond markets and growth a chance to stabilize.
Guardiola has the option of restoring Pique to his starting lineup to combat Drogba's strength, having sprung a surprise by leaving the Spain international out of both the first leg and the game against Madrid.
If India - with its own important historical association with Africa - was initially taken by surprise by the scale of China's interest in Africa it has been playing catch-up in a major way, too.
Angela Knight, chief executive of the Energy UK - the trade association for the energy sector - told BBC News the industry had been taken by surprise by the PM's announcement and more clarity was needed on the government's position.
The Russian authorities had envisioned a gradual phasing out, but the Turkmen leader took them by surprise by issuing a decree that gave dual-citizenship-holders living in Turkmenistan only until June 22nd to decide which passport they wanted to keep.
Israelis can be forgiven for being taken by surprise by their move and by the prospect that Uruguay, and perhaps Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and El Salvador, will be following in their footsteps because the Israeli media have failed to report on developing trends in Latin America.
The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's argument was not new but No 10 seemed to have been caught by surprise by the timing of the article, which comes less than two weeks before the Budget and after the economy shrank in the last few months of 2012.
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