Sentence examples for would surely recognise from inspiring English sources

And he would surely recognise himself in a song lyric – not that she would feel compelled to write one about him.

Any Brit hack would surely recognise Sidney's starstruck arrival in Manhattan, gawping slackjawed from the back of a cab as the city's nightscape rushes past.

Even though she doesn't feel a need to be published, she said she "probably need[s] to write", a distinction which JD Salinger – who hasn't published a word since 1965, despite rumours of shelves groaning with manuscripts – would surely recognise.

The Taylors and Scotts who dominated the first century of the Guardian's life would surely recognise the same ends now being pursued, even if they might be a little surprised by the means.

If that faithful wee dog could see, he would surely recognise, across Chambers Street, a similar example of fidelity: the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) is about to open for the day, just as it has for the past 150 years.

As he would surely recognise, the problem isn't just a deepening recession, however serious.

But it's the whole site which is so magically resonant, and the chaps who gave their word of honour not to use their home-constructed sewing machine to make escape disguises would, surely, still recognise the view.

North Korea was just being founded as George Orwell wrote 1984, but it's the sort of soul-crushing scene he would surely have recognised.

He would surely have recognised some of himself in Stefano Pessina: the wheeler-dealing, the gusto for marketing, the tireless expansionism.

Burnham would surely have recognised that there was a balance to be drawn; whether his successor, Ben Bradshaw, a former BBC employee, will draw the same conclusions is less certain.

We can surely recognise this, too.