That plan failed, which hardly surprised him, I think.

This should hardly surprise anyone who knows Doctorow's own literature.

Yet as shocking as it was at the time, she said, the disclosure hardly surprised her.

"And after what happened yesterday that can hardly surprise you."

But the fantastic stories fabricated by the propaganda department hardly surprised them.

We could hardly surprise and take it in time to catch the Duke.

As the local police point out, they know why you're here and you can hardly surprise them anymore.

Two hundred miles away, in northern Ohio, another recruiter said the incident hardly surprised him.

It hardly surprised him that people were not too keen on paying good money for that.

It hardly surprised her that the goldfish pool had spread so much.