Usage of "take by surprise"

Encara no tenim significats per a "take by surprise".

Ús de take by surprise en anglès

They would doubtless have been more difficult to take by surprise than the beast. 
 The Great Book of Amber 

Taken by surprise, Titus lost the advantage, but only for the moment. 
 The Last Gladiatrix 

You mustn't allow yourselves to be taken by surprise, as I was. 
 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 

Gale and I were taken by surprise, yes, but we're both hunters. 
 The Hunger Games 

Rand had been taken by surprise while lost in worry about Mat. 
 To the blight: the eye of the world 

Taken by surprise, Yamila shrank back, uncertainty clouding her usual belligerent expression. 
 Acts of faith 

And a source close to Cyrus denied Hemsworth was taken by surprise. 
 News.com.au 

Boileau, put publicly on the spot via speakerphone, was taken by surprise. 
 Reuters 

She had been taken by surprise in the street, and was frightened. 
 The Eustace Diamonds 

With probably no one being more taken by surprise than its host. 
 In the Dark 

The royalist party was taken by surprise by the decrees of Fructidor. 
 History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 

Then Gus was taken by surprise; even his ready intuition failed him. 
 Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio 

Arthas stared, utterly taken by surprise as the three dreadlords surrounded him. 
 Arthas: rise of the lich king 

Rubens realized he was overreacting because he had been taken by surprise. 
 Deep black 

He took by surprise the town of Lens, between Lille and Arras. 
 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 

I have remarked it, and I was taken by surprise this morning. 
 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 

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Significats de take by surprise en anglès