1. The question caught her completely off-guard.

2. The sudden snow storm caught us all off-guard.

3. When half-asleep and off-guard her vocabulary was raunchy.

4. Caught off-guard Wednesday, he apologized and reversed course.

5. Malcolm liked to rattle you, catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet.

6. Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation.

7. Caught off-guard, he blushed slightly, blinked his hazy blue eyes, and looked away in embarrassment.

8. The Indians came out unexpectedly, catching the soldiers off-guard.

9. When we're caught off-guard, we're more likely to fall back into old, ineffective habits like the combat mentality.

10. "So I did get a little caught off-guard when they went from their [ProLiant] G1 model to their G6 model, " Bourassa says.

11. British diplomats were also caught off-guard and cautioned that Kinnock's remarks remained speculation.

12. A rapid, one-time jump could catch speculators off-guard - but also shock domestic companies and disrupt the economy, which Beijing would hate even more.

13. Beauty had become an abstraction; she was never caught off-guard by it.

14. Industry players say the FX effect on earnings is less pronounced than in 2008, when companies were caught off-guard by a dollar rally as stock markets tanked.

15. During the last years of his life , when his country flirted temporarily with liberalism , John Wayne appeared out of step . He change was sudden and caught him off-guard , momentarily at least .

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16. IN A time when the market for Chinese treasures is constantly breaking records, the success of the sale of George and Mary Bloch's snuff bottles in Hong Kong still caught many off-guard.

17. Teams such as Algeria, Uruguay, Portugal and Switzerland lay in wait in their own half of the pitch before launching quick counter-attacks to catch opponents off-guard.

18. Some experts say it's a stage-managed Kremlin theater production, a "good cop, bad cop" act designed to keep the opposition off-guard and the public guessing.

19. But Dan wasn't out yet either, and I was caught off-guard when he told me to slow down.

20. Commodities prices are pushing higher once more Monday with a surge in Chinese import growth catching markets off-guard and demonstrating the country's still-voracious appetite for raw materials.

21. For this reason, you should become comfortable with this so that when updates do come, they will not catch you off-guard.