The beauty of this city will take you by surprise.

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Instead, suicide tends to take us by surprise, as loved ones or friends gradually shut us out of their suffering, to protect us or because they fear the reaction.

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The kingdom did take analysts by surprise, however, by saying it would seek to raise its capacity to as much as 15m barrels a day by 2018, up from 11.4m now.

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Back in 2009, Mark Zuckerberg had his whole profile — including photos and his events calendar — go suddenly and dramatically public after a Facebook privacy setting overhaul that seemed to take him by surprise.

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This week, a proposal to tax cars by the mile seemed to take the country by surprise.

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At first, the ferocity of his critics appeared to take Mr Henkel by surprise.

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But the information the Russians reportedly provided was incorrect, and it may actually have helped U.S. forces take the Iraqis by surprise.

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And when they do, they may take their own inventor by surprise.

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Ironically, these revelations seemed to take the Russian defence ministry by surprise.

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Mr Putin's attack seemed to take Mr Medvedev and his circle by surprise.

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Mack did not say how long the group expected its work would take or whether it could ultimately influence the terms set by NYSE and Archipelago in their surprise deal.

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