Example sentences of "you could hardly [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 2 | You could hardly expect him to regard it as his home . |
| 3 | You could hardly hear him anyway , what with the drum and all this rain and milk in the air . |
| 4 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , Dorothea , ’ said Isabel Lavender , her small mouth pointing the consonants , ‘ but you could hardly say he took part . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , you could hardly believe he was a businessman at all . |