Some of those empty seats surely belonged to no-shows, those season-ticket holders who, for one reason or another, just couldn't be there.

And if somebody asked, "but to a fiction there surely belongs an author?"

That function surely belongs rightfully to the United Nations, does it not?

'Very much, thank you, sir,' she replies, while thinking that two of the legs in Eliza's doorway surely belonged to him.

I have always been thin, but the gaunt image that glares back at me in the glass must surely belong to a sickly, aged relation.

"But it surely belongs better to you and your husband," he said with a wry smile, "than it does to me."

I tried to pull him up from the depths by discussing it and placing the full blame where it surely belonged.

The following file, brief and dazed, surely belongs to this period.

Opposite was a glass cabinet displaying a full set of samurai armor dating from the seventeenth century that surely belonged in a museum.

He had read nothing about this in the newspaper, but the handwriting surely belonged to Lomack.