Example sentences of "'d hardly " in BNC.

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1 Her legs were bare to way above her knees and her legs felt cold and so thin they 'd hardly support her weight .
2 You 'd hardly expect it to rely on a laboratory analysis of the ingredients to assess the flavour .
3 Dinner was plate after plate of food he 'd hardly ever set eyes on , let alone eaten : caviar , bortsch , salmon , duck .
4 And he 'd hardly venture on the heartland .
5 ‘ If you had , you 'd hardly forget , ’ he chuckled .
6 ‘ The inspectors were perfectly pleasant and apart from the odd query you 'd hardly know they were there , ’ said Mr Dicketts .
7 So while we 're proud to offer you a capacious oven and a classic waist-level grill in a traditional freestanding cooker , we 've added contemporary benefits which make life easier , and a choice of colours — something you 'd hardly expect to find in a cooker at this price .
8 If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard .
9 I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’
10 If he did n't , he 'd hardly want to go back for it .
11 But if you 're married as long as I am you 'd hardly call it ‘ idyllic ’ .
12 ‘ He 'd hardly make a fuss about an old skull , ’ Albert said , but went to Mister Johnny just the same and held out his hand .
13 ‘ I 'd hardly say that !
14 ‘ I 'd hardly call Erith Marsh the beau monde , Mother . ’
15 They would put you on different jobs so you 'd hardly see one another .
16 Even if my aunt had been mentally lost to Uncle Félix years ago , as the mater said , he 'd hardly be thinking about marriage to another woman at such a time .
17 Oh I do n't think we di we 'd hardly anything .
18 ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’
19 She 'd hardly know a thing .
20 I think he 's Scottish by extraction , though you 'd hardly know it from his accent .
21 After all — he 'd hardly bother telling you that unless something had put it into his mind .
22 They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’
23 Skirts have gone so much shorter — you 'd hardly believe the hems I 've taken up .
24 He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr
25 ‘ I 'd hardly call it my decision to be here with you .
26 And as for not doing much , you 'd hardly recognise the place ! ’
27 And even if she did she 'd hardly be likely to tell me — it would have been gossip .
28 And even if I had , and wanted it , I 'd hardly keep insisting it was n't him , would I ? ’ she exclaimed .
29 You 'd hardly know I was there .
30 ‘ But when my hat is on , you 'd hardly notice the notch the Emperor clipped in my ear .
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