However, if you were to look up to the higher walls in quiet street corners, you'd the get the surprise of your life.

On the point of doing so, he was given the biggest surprise of his life.

Being thrown out was "the surprise of my life," he says.

Going to give good old dad the surprise of his life when I get home.

And anyway Joan would have the finest surprise of her life!

Instead, she said, "It was the best surprise of my life."

But she got the surprise of her poor, battered little life.

He cast out into a deep, dark pool and immediately received the surprise of his life.

Then he received one of the great surprises of his life.

He got one of the major surprises of his life.