Example sentences of "surely as if [pron] " in BNC.

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1	They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so .
2	The massive pin-sharp image completely fills the five-storey screen and you are there , as surely as if you were in an orbiting Shuttle .
3	As surely as if he could see them actually arriving , see them now , he pictured the stolen lorries driven in .
4	Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property .
5	More important , perhaps , he was in normal uniform , which grounded him as surely as if he had been chained to the nearest hangar door .
6	I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames .
7	Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly .
8	She was gone now , out of his life as surely as if she were dead .
9	Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass .
10	Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin .
11	The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery .
12	We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’
13	I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands .

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