Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] hardly have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 2 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
| 3 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 4 | ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity . |
| 5 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll hardly have to see her at all , ’ said my mother , voicing her worry tangentially , ‘ in a house that size . ’ |
| 7 | Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty . |
| 8 | As she was also trying out several other would-be choreographers and having new ballets made for Sadler 's Wells by Ashton and Howard too , she could hardly have done more for someone who was regarded as promising ( by some people as highly promising ) but unproven . |
| 9 | Benny was such a big girl , she could hardly have wanted them for herself . |
| 10 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 11 | But she was glad of that too , for she might have felt she was honour bound to refuse — she could hardly have consented without shame — but this way , he had given her the most intense pleasure , which crossed her back and forth in waves of shock and fear , redoubling upon themselves and increasing in strength . |
| 12 | But since , technically , she 'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less . |
| 13 | " Yes , there is , " Martha replied , with a firmness which she could hardly have inherited either from her father or her mother , " but there 's no reason why we should n't go and look at things . |
| 14 | She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon 's leave . |
| 15 | But Marion Kemp could not , in my view , have killed her husband , and quite certainly she could hardly have moved the body a single centimetre from where it lay . |
| 16 | It 's all about conversation Jonathan , you 'd hardly have a conver |
| 17 | ‘ You could hardly have done it without us , of course , but never mind that . |
| 18 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 19 | You could hardly have dreamed of such a possibility . |
| 20 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 21 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 22 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 23 | Which was just as well , thought Folly , as she would hardly have known how to reply . |
| 24 | It was a new envelope and address label , so he must have a typewriter in there too , but unless you were looking for it , you would hardly have spotted the swap . |
| 25 | She can hardly have been surprised that the spotlight stayed on her marriage — her husband is , after all , the man who will be our next king . |
| 26 | But economics do not determine penal practices in a simple and direct manner ; if they did we should hardly have the extremely wasteful penal system which exists in this country today , with its needlessly and expensively high prison population . |
| 27 | On the whole the wooden aircraft were extraordinarily successful and I suppose that we could hardly have won the War without them . |
| 28 | We could hardly have achieved less than the Community 's observers . |
| 29 | ‘ We could hardly have our new tutor dying of thirst , ’ he added . |
| 30 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |