Those three men in that study were due for a bad surprise.

She probably was not accustomed to being the one on the receiving end of bad surprises.

After looking through the offices to make certain there were no bad surprises waiting for her, he stationed himself in the hall outside to wait.

The planet bad one last unpleasant surprise for them, however.

But he was sure this Gypsy had some bad surprise for him.

This was not to be my last or worst surprise that day.

"There are no bad surprises about the way the road is engineered."

A number of little things going wrong was not supposed to be in the cards; it's a very bad surprise.

The worst recent surprise, of course, came in 1987 when the stock market crashed.

I know you've had a lot of bad surprises recently.