Example sentences of "surely [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely nothing could now go wrong . |
| 2 | Surely nothing could go wrong now ? |
| 3 | Surely I could forget my surroundings for an hour and a half . |
| 4 | My boyfriend commented that surely I could n't lose weight eating so much food ! |
| 5 | ‘ Flavia , you ask too much , ’ he said , and surely I could work that one out by myself . |
| 6 | " I wish I 'd known — surely I could have helped somehow — you did n't think I 'd be shocked or anything , did you ? " |
| 7 | ‘ Surely I could n't have been so rough ? |
| 8 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 9 | But surely nobody could have anticipated this sort of attack ? |
| 10 | ‘ But surely you could have complained to somebody ? ’ |
| 11 | " How can you say that , how can you say that , " said Clelia , " by saying that you are condemning me , you 're criticizing me , you 're implying that I talk too much , God knows I do , but surely you could do better ? |
| 12 | He said , gentle , " But Alice , surely you could " Do better was what he wanted to say . |
| 13 | When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . " |
| 14 | ‘ Surely you could ? |
| 15 | Well surely you could measure it as it went from one to the other ? |
| 16 | As her heart stopped inside her he continued mercilessly , ‘ Surely you could use that to pay me ? ’ |
| 17 | When her car was seen approaching people fled through covered lines of retreat , through side doors and stable yards , into the snow , anywhere to avoid her persuasive ‘ But surely you could manage one more . |
| 18 | ‘ Surely you could talk to her ? |
| 19 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 20 | Surely you could tell us that . ’ |
| 21 | I mean surely you could have a point eight for crystal and still solder ? |
| 22 | If she tried hard enough , surely she could make it all , the car and the people , vanish into thin air , like one of her fantasies ? |
| 23 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 24 | Surely she could n't be planning to go along with the lies . |
| 25 | Surely she could forgive , if not forget . |
| 26 | Surely she could not be jealous of Cora-Beth , he thought ? |
| 27 | Surely she could send me a message of some sort ? |
| 28 | Surely she could n't really be dead ; could n't they see that ? |
| 29 | Yet surely she could render her brother one service to which the dead are always entitled . |
| 30 | He is n't the first man to leave his wife and , though I understand your instinct to protect your sister , surely she could and should fight her own battles ? ’ |