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Unread Jul 7th, 2016, 08:08 am
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I'm surprised to see you here? (from a dictionary)
I'm surprised at seeing you here?
Hi susan,

Which kind of construction is more common and why? surprised to see...or surprised at seeing...?

Thanks a lot.
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Default Re: surprised
to + infinitive

Using a corpus of 3m words, both US and UK English, I got the following results :

surprised to + infinitive : 16 occurrences
surprised at + gerund : 0 occurrences

surprised at plus other form of noun phrase eg with noun head or pronoun) : 18 occurrences
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