1.   His friends had planned a surprise party for him.

2.   I have a hunch that Jodie May be planning a surprise party.

3.   Mark, my boss, had a surprise party to welcome me home.

4.   We gave her a surprise party at a local bar.

5.   My plan to throw her a surprise party backfired when she ended up sobbing that everyone had forgotten her birthday.

6.   The ostensible reason for the meeting turned out to be a trick to get him to the surprise party.

7.   Asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party.

8.   Put on a convincing charade to keep her from knowing about the surprise party.

9.   But a surprise birthday party for his wife in Kennebunkport, Maine, was compromised when a retired senator telephoned to apologize for being unable to attend.

10.   But my wife had a surprise birthday party for me at the Petroleum Club.