Example sentences of "would hardly have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity . |
| 2 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 3 | If Stirling had not been captured when he was , he would hardly have survived his planned raid on Sousse , having to approach his target right through the middle of the remnants of the Axis armies who were caught in an ever-diminishing pocket . |
| 4 | Carmella would hardly have recognised her house now . |
| 5 | ‘ He would hardly have wanted anyone alerting the authorities , would he ? ’ |
| 6 | It would hardly have done him much good in his professional life , where women were always wanting to know if they were having them or how to stop them or conceive them , if he had been . |
| 7 | Presumably the French had believed her , or they would hardly have let her go . |
| 8 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ said Morton , ‘ had she been wearing clothes , her murderers would hardly have removed them , to dress her in these . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ His daughter would hardly have known him — and anyway she 's on my list . |
| 11 | After that first round of 75 , on which Ballesteros blamed his putting , this was a distinct improvement and so was Olazabal 's 69 , though one would hardly have known it . |
| 12 | It was a magnificent match for the spectators but Sunderland 's caretaker-manager Malcolm Crosby would hardly have enjoyed it . |