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1 They would doubtless have been more difficult to take by surprise than the beast.
2 Taken by surprise , Titus lost the advantage, but only for the moment.
3 You mustn't allow yourselves to be taken by surprise , as I was.
4 Gale and I were taken by surprise , yes, but we're both hunters.
5 Rand had been taken by surprise while lost in worry about Mat.
6 Taken by surprise , Yamila shrank back, uncertainty clouding her usual belligerent expression.
7 And a source close to Cyrus denied Hemsworth was taken by surprise .
8 Boileau, put publicly on the spot via speakerphone, was taken by surprise .
9 She had been taken by surprise in the street, and was frightened.
10 With probably no one being more taken by surprise than its host.
11 The royalist party was taken by surprise by the decrees of Fructidor.
12 Then Gus was taken by surprise ; even his ready intuition failed him.
13 Arthas stared, utterly taken by surprise as the three dreadlords surrounded him.
14 Rubens realized he was overreacting because he had been taken by surprise .
15 He took by surprise the town of Lens, between Lille and Arras.
16 I have remarked it, and I was taken by surprise this morning.
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