Example sentences of "she [modal v] 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 12 | Which was just as well , thought Folly , as she would hardly have known how to reply . |
| 13 | 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 . |