That response should not have come as a complete surprise.
His success had come as a complete surprise to him.
What did at last happen once more caught him with complete surprise.
I want the action to come as a complete surprise.
Still, the decision did not come as a complete surprise.
What came out of me next was a complete surprise.
At least, his father thought, children wouldn't be a complete surprise to him, when he finally met some.
So this whole thing came as a complete surprise to us.
Their attack was in the nature of a complete surprise.
It came as a complete surprise when everything went white.