Example sentences of "[pers pn] could hardly [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 2 | I could hardly pour the kettle because I was shaking . |
| 3 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 4 | She was breathing so quietly I could hardly see the rise and fall of her breasts , and those lips of hers looking fuller than I remembered , the mouth wider , and the line of the teeth just showing very white . |
| 5 | The word ‘ Hecketypecky ’ passed between them , and when I eventually found it — the Rio Jequetepeque — I could hardly believe the spelling . |
| 6 | Her hands were trembling , she could hardly hold the glass . |
| 7 | And she could hardly leave the car where it was , slewed across the road . |
| 8 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 9 | She could hardly hear the woman 's queries ; her stomach twisted ; his bland little words ticked in her head — soon , very soon . |
| 10 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 11 | It happened so fast she could hardly follow the change with her gaze . |
| 12 | I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy . |
| 13 | Luke picked up his whisky , his freckled hand was so big you could hardly see the glass . |
| 14 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 15 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 16 | so why come when we went to town that time you could hardly hit the board |
| 17 | Sinar Surya carried only an antique compass whose oil was so clouded with age that we could hardly read the rose . |
| 18 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 19 | The Society prospered , although at its 1852 annual public tea it could hardly hold a Christmas cheese and wine party members were saddened by the numbers that had fallen from grace once the hay and corn harvests had been collected . |
| 20 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 21 | But he could hardly bear the idea of law as an instrument for telling people how to pray . |
| 22 | As the man who had emerged to lead France out of the abyss of June 1940 , he could hardly countenance a return to the errors that had brought about the débcle . |
| 23 | He could hardly adapt the style of the building 's closest neighbour , the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel . |
| 24 | His hands were so cold he could hardly play the guitar . |
| 25 | It was as though he could not be convinced ; as though he could hardly accept the fact that his father was no longer there , the final arbiter of all that happened in the business and in their domestic lives . |
| 26 | While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them . |
| 27 | Before he wrote the book he could hardly get the job because he had not published a book . |