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• They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.
• England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
• It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did.
• The surprise attack was devastating.
• The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[...]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man’s private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
• Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did.
• It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
• He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
• He doesn’t surprise easily.
• “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ?  Why didn’t I telephone ?  Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”