Example sentences of "she could hardly have " in BNC.

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1 Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty .
2 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 .
3 Benny was such a big girl , she could hardly have wanted them for herself .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 But since , technically , she 'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less .
7 " 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 .
8 She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon 's leave .
9 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 .
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