They can't have been taken unawares by the level of interest, surely?

People carried and spread the plague unawares until the fever took hold.

The Eridanians didn't exactly have the technology to take the IG unawares.

I chose some new companions;-andnow I find I entertained assassins unawares.

The Christian name slipped out unawares, and the Duke winced at it.

The blow caught him unawares and knocked him squawking upon the ground.

He would prove this great lady; she should not take him unawares.

Taken unawares, the executive was not prepared to refuse the courteous request.

It is imposed from without, and the seed does its bidding unawares.

This was said unawares while listening to the life of a saint.

Some of his thoughts, appearing in print, may take modern readers unawares.

We may be laying the foundations of such a system to-day unawares.

All of it had fairly leaped at him and caught him unawares.

I had forgot about the equinoctial gales, and this caught me unawares.

Nothing is impossible if you can only take the other fellow unawares.

Do it quietly, take them unawares, and the risk will be nothing.