Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb mod] hardly [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 2 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 3 | When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups . |
| 4 | At the end of the first year Susan realised that although the business was profitable she could hardly take out enough money to live on because she was heavily reliant on her bank and creditors already . |
| 5 | His voice was so low she could hardly hear him . |
| 6 | Cheshire social services chief David Whitehead said Siobhan was so weak she could hardly walk . |
| 7 | I hurried on , slipping on the black ice , cursing and praying , hammering at the doors I passed but I was so cold I could hardly cry out . |
| 8 | I was soaked to the skin , my hands so cold I could hardly keep hold of the tiller . |
| 9 | You 'd go in and have to queue up , wait for the chance to get the frying pan to put bacon and egg in it , and your hands so cold you could hardly hold it , and that would take up a quarter of an hour . |
| 10 | The air was so cold we could hardly breathe it . |
| 11 | His hands were so cold he could hardly play the guitar . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm so tired I can hardly think straight . ’ |
| 13 | Gradually she grew so tired she could hardly think . |
| 14 | he had fallen off twice more and ridden twelve different ponies by lunchtime and was so tired she could hardly eat . |
| 15 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 16 | Nurses you care for , sisters who never tire , doctors who are so tired they can hardly focus , consultants who hand out hope , pharmacists who hand out dope . |
| 17 | I am so angry I can hardly write [ it began , and there was ample evidence in the shaping of the letters that this was indeed so ] . |
| 18 | and they kept I was in stiff I could hardly move them I mean if I touched them now I mean that one 's not too bad I ca n't touch that one very much when you can see them , my scars and all there If I touch that , that 'll be very gingerly ach aches like hell ! |
| 19 | I felt so heavy I could hardly sit up properly . ’ |
| 20 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 21 | Bernice was so angry she could hardly speak . |
| 22 | She ended the first day with a headache so severe she could hardly see . |
| 23 | yeah , but its not best is it really , the frame 's so heavy you can hardly ride it I do n't know whether its worth |
| 24 | It was an enormous moment , this good-bye to the old home ; so enormous she could hardly grasp it , could feel only a vague regret . |
| 25 | 2 sheep have been abandoned in a field , their fleece so heavy they can hardly walk . |
| 26 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 27 | They may be all right to eat but they 're the devil to pick because they 're so small you can hardly see them . ’ |
| 28 | Well of a reasonable a re Yes I mean they wo n't be so small you can hardly see them |
| 29 | At this early stage in getting to know Qbasic you can hardly expect to turn out a master work but to leave you with just Hello World until next month would be cruel . |
| 30 | No , I 'm sure that they 'd got two little rooms on the ground floor and they were choc-a-block you could hardly get in ! |