I was at first taken aback, not quite sure what was going on.
The arguments confounded many, and the western press was taken aback.
That took us all aback, but they are experiences that are remembered with a degree of pleasure.
I think that everyone here was taken aback by this enumeration of the amendments that have been refused, often without very detailed explanations.
I am equally grateful, though slightly taken aback, that he has answered them as well.
I was a little taken aback to see that we had been relegated to the last page and almost the last paragraph.
I was always taken aback by the lack of knowledge of local people about what was going on.
I was a little taken aback suddenly to find that he had tabled early-day motion 1809.