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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had seen this unlooked-for inheritance simply as a source of lucre.
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He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university.
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In his family he found an unlooked-for happiness.
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The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.
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Theodora gazed at the extraordinary, the unlooked-for information.
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This recondite reinterpretation of the classics had the unlooked-for result of keeping them alive and well for many, many centuries.
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This was such an unlooked-for success that I now only need glasses for reading.
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Whatever it was, the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity.