Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] hardly [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All right , but I was merely pointing out that I would hardly liken you to an animal or bird from New Zealand when I 'm Australian . ’ |
| 2 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
| 3 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 4 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 5 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 6 | I 'm sure , rationally , that what happened next actually did happen , but when I write it down , even now after all this time , it seems so amazing to me that I can hardly believe it was true . |
| 7 | The light may be so poor that I can hardly see anything at all anyway . |
| 8 | I have n't seen her handwriting for so long that I can hardly remember what it 's like . |
| 9 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 10 | The sea-mail letter arrived this afternoon , and my hands shook so much when I retired to my tent that I could hardly open it … |
| 11 | And the lights were so bright that I could hardly bear it and my eyes are still burning . |
| 12 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 13 | The patter that passed between them spoke of an easy familiarity , and was so fast and allusive that I could hardly follow it . |
| 14 | And he bent his head so that his mouth was hidden in the folds of my skirt , and said so softly that I could hardly hear it , but I felt it more than heard it , through the red material , murmured against my leg : " I love you . " |
| 15 | He talked so steadily that I could hardly thank him . |
| 16 | Mother is frowning and her hand is shaking so that she can hardly eat her desert , and I 've done that . |
| 17 | The necklace was a collar of dull silver , two hinged silver pieces knobbed with moonstones which snapped into place around her lean neck and rose up almost to her chin so that she could hardly move her head . |
| 18 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 19 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
| 20 | The words rang so clear in her head that she could hardly believe she had n't spoken them aloud . |
| 21 | It was so totally unexpected that she could hardly comprehend it . |
| 22 | It uttered a doglike howl , then raced past Tallis , moving so fast on its hind legs , bent forward , that she could hardly follow its motion . |
| 23 | Instead of Greece they went to Wyvis Hall because Adam was broke and Mary was close to broke because that first time it had been so beautiful and peaceful and private there that you could hardly see what advantages Greece would have had over it . |
| 24 | The hood was pulled up so that you could hardly see his head . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |
| 27 | They are so virtuous that one can hardly call them pagans at all . |
| 28 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 29 | Inside the car the sounds of Technotronic screamed out so loudly that they could hardly hear themselves think . |
| 30 | He sat with his arms folded , staring down at the fancy tablecloth and when he did speak again he was so quiet that they could hardly hear him , so they had to listen seriously — even Sean and Michael , who were never , or rarely serious . |