| To Peter's astonishment a familiar figure was wading ashore, a red and white lifebelt about his waist. |
| And then, to my even greater astonishment, he turns and starts jogging back up the stairs. |
| Lunchtime shoppers gazed in astonishment as police launched a full-scale raid on a suspected drug pusher operating from York city centre. |
| Del Toro builds dread with masterly restraint, and brings to his compositions some eerie and original astonishments. |
| The astonishments of Cern are easy enough to discuss in engineering terms. |
| That act, like those moments from Garbo, Gish, and Brooks, suggests a vein of contrariness and complication, the astonishments of art. |
