Example sentences of "[modal v] hardly wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hardly wait . |
| 2 | It was almost at the end of surgery and it was almost as if the doctor were expecting me ; and later , I could hardly wait to tell Leo what had happened . |
| 3 | According to one report , people could hardly wait for the attack to start , and everybody wanted to be present at Britain 's impending defeat . |
| 4 | I could hardly wait to explore the city once more . |
| 5 | He could hardly wait for dinner-time when he would have the chance to speak to Evelyn . |
| 6 | Evelyn could hardly wait for dinner time so that she could say something to Jackie . |
| 7 | Back in the late 1940s , early 1950s , I remember my fishing mentor , the late Tom Kelly , Edinburgh , describing these wonderful , strange fish which displayed all the colours of the rainbow when they were caught ; and I could hardly wait to have a go . |
| 8 | I could hardly wait to get in those bars . |
| 9 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
| 10 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |
| 11 | He had to admit he could hardly wait to see her again . |
| 12 | I could hardly wait , for example , to get my hands on the original ballpoint pen . |
| 13 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 14 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 15 | It sounded such fun , I could hardly wait . |
| 16 | ‘ I take thee … to have and to hold … ’ was once thought of as the beginning of a romantic and loving vow , which women could hardly wait to take . |
| 17 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 18 | Those who hold the royal family dear could hardly wait for her downfall . |
| 19 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 20 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 21 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 22 | I could hardly wait to see him . |
| 23 | Nevertheless he always remained undaunted and could hardly wait for the winding up of his previous effort before starting to plan its successor . |
| 24 | You could hardly wait for dark |
| 25 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 26 | I could hardly wait until late evening when the beaches would be less crowded . |
| 27 | But he could hardly wait to get rid of Antony so that he could test it . |
| 28 | I could hardly wait to land . |
| 29 | She could hardly wait to start . |
| 30 | Sometimes Emmie woke feeling empty and lethargic as if everything had been drained out of her ; other mornings , she could hardly wait to get out of bed and begin the day . |