Example sentences of "surely [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely even you could n't imagine I 'd claim ownership without the proof to back it up ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Surely even you could n't have seriously thought that I intended abducting Kirsty ? ’ |
| 3 | Surely even you could work that out without . |
| 4 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 5 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |