Pam realized, to her surprise, that she had been almost dozing.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

In 1945, Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No. 3, a graceful and almost neo-classical work, as a surprise 42nd birthday present for Ditta, but he died just over a month before her birthday, with the scoring not quite finished.

In creating this world out of Chaos the Demiurge was unconsciously influenced for good ; and the universe, to the surprise even of its Maker, became almost perfect.

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

In their first appearance, for example, Ximénez has trouble with listing their weapons (" Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms — oh damn!

However, to the surprise of almost no one outside Seattle, the Pilots were terrible.

He was released after three and a half years and was almost immediately indicted on 22 Massachusetts state charges of larceny, which came as a surprise to Ponzi ; he thought he had a deal calling for the state to drop any charges against him if he pleaded guilty to the federal charges.

At Bordeaux, and again at the Battle of the River Garonne, the Umayyad forces were cavalry, not infantry, and were not taken by surprise, and given a chance to mass for battle, which led to the devastation of Odo's army, almost all of whom were killed with minimal losses to the Muslims.

To their surprise, the team found that the Apollo rocks carried an isotopic signature that was identical with rocks from Earth, and were different from almost all other bodies in the Solar System.

The castle remained a key Parisian fortress, but was successfully seized by the Burgundians in 1464, when they convinced royal troops to surrender: once taken, this allowed their faction to make a surprise attack into Paris, almost resulting in the capture of the king.

It was considered a surprise hit movie as it grossed over $ 50 million in America and almost $ 80 million worldwide.

* 2005: Hans Bekx almost finished second overall in the truck division, before being removed from the competition because of an irregularity, much to the surprise of the ( mostly Dutch ) fans.

A deserter, Lt. Gustav Juliet, found Ferguson and told him of Pulaski's encampment ; he mentioned that morale was fairly low, and security almost nonexistent, so that a surprise attack would be devastating.

" Because the story of the Passion is so well known, Gibson felt the need to avoid vernacular languages in order to surprise audiences: " I think it's almost counterproductive to say some of these things in a modern language.

After deciding the place for the launch ( Stone's Hill in " Tampa Town ", Florida ; predating Kennedy Space Center's placement in Florida by almost 100 years ; Verne gives the exact position as 27 ° 7 ' northern latitude and 5 ° 7 ' western longitude, of course relative to the meridian of Washington that is ), the Gun Club travels there and starts the construction of the Columbiad cannon, which requires the excavation of a and circular hole, which is made in the nick of time, but a surprise awaits Barbicane: Michel Ardan, a French adventurer, plans to travel aboard the projectile.

He then spends over a decade in a hospital bed, almost going mad, when the Canadian government approaches him with the idea of replacing his skeleton one bone at a time with adamantium, the claws being a surprise.

In the video, Rachel is almost stood up by her date and Ross in his father's tux reluctantly decided to surprise her by going as her date.

He was almost immediately confronted with the surprise information that Major Anderson was reporting that only six weeks of rations remained at Fort Sumter.

These birds capture prey from cover or while flying quickly through dense vegetation, relying almost totally on surprise.

Before dawn on 19 June, his little army was taken by surprise and almost destroyed, because Bruce had accepted Valence at his word and failed to take the precaution of placing pickets around the camp.

In his arguably most successful battle, Stones River that December, his Second Corps launched a massive surprise assault that drove Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's army almost to defeat.

No note was left ; it was a surprise to everyone.

Soon everyone was having a hearty laugh, including Wheeler, and the next morning he was, much to everyone's surprise, nominated by acclamation.

Tony and Paul surprise everyone by deciding to tag along on the trip.

George Harrison makes a surprise appearance playing Johnny B. Goode with everyone at the end of the show.

Plans were made for his lying-in-state and state funeral, but to the surprise of everyone he survived, albeit paralysed and having to use a wheelchair.

To the surprise of nearly everyone, Brunswick broke off the action and retired from the field.

The woman chooses Sid as her date, much to the surprise of everyone watching.

Joe wants to tell everyone but Quinn tells him to wait until she can walk into the choir room by herself and surprise everyone.

While still on the staff of Rolling Stone, Duke applied for the position of Governor of American Samoa, and to his — and everyone else's — surprise, was actually appointed to the post by the United States Senate.

Stoddard miraculously kills Valance with one shot, to the surprise of everyone, including himself.

To the surprise of nearly everyone, including themselves, UFA took 38 seats in the election, winning a majority government, and sweeping the Liberals out of power after 17 years.

Despite her apparent lack of common sense and intelligence, she has a few surprises up her sleeve — such as occasionally knowing certain " smart " things, which usually tends to surprise everyone else.

Harold's surprise arrives — sneakers for everyone to wear during the big Michigan football game.

The detail was not usually something easy to guess like blindfolding or whipped cream, but was usually something that would surprise everyone such as changing a factor of the stunt to make it more difficult ( for example, Collyer would demonstrate throwing a baseball into a barrel but then replace the baseballs with basketballs that would barely fit into the barrel, or moving the contestant much further away from the barrel, etc.

This mission would solidify the fame of White Base as Zeon's worst nightmare, as this single ship managed to surprise everyone by repeatedly knocking out heavyweight Zeon fleet commanders.

This is brought to his superiors ' attention by Captain Harris, and Lassard's retirement is announced to the surprise of everyone ( including himself ) at the subsequent graduation ceremony.

Hubert was hoping to marry Princess Virginia of Dawsbergen — Bevra's younger sister — but she had previously contracted a marriage of convenience to Pendennis Yorke, an American journalist, and much to the surprise of everyone it became a genuine love match.

To the surprise of everyone as the race progressed, Hunt was able to stay around one second behind Peterson.

Clark is obsessed with making everything go perfectly during the holiday season, but as soon as everyone arrives, things start going haywire, especially when the Griswolds receive some uninvited surprise guests from Kansas -- cousin Catherine ( Miriam Flynn ), her sloppy husband Eddie ( Randy Quaid ), and two of their kids, Rocky ( Cody Burger ) and Ruby Sue ( Ellen Hamilton Latzen ).

Stanley Tshosane was named as his replacement and in his first game in charge, Botswana achieved an impressive 2 – 1 win away to Mozambique to put them in a relatively strong position in their qualifying group ; on their next fixture, they took everyone by surprise by holding Côte d ' Ivoire to a 1 – 1 draw.

With a handful of men they organised a surprise attack by night on the fort, climbing onto the roof of a house, shooting the gunners who opposed them, and, after hand-to-hand fighting, taking the fort, killing everyone in it.

This led to widespread press coverage of both the TMNT property and Mirage Studios itself, creating " a demand for the interestingly-titled comic that caught everyone by surprise.

This led to widespread press coverage of both the TMNT property and Mirage Studios itself, creating " a demand for the interestingly-titled comic that caught everyone by surprise.