Example sentences of "[that] hardly [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we both knew that hardly anyone would be prepared to speak out and argue my case . |
| 2 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 3 | Funnily enough , it 's an album that hardly anyone seems to have heard of , apart from the real Fleetwood Mac enthusiasts — perhaps it 's because it does n't have any of the famous tracks on it . |
| 4 | He would n't even mind that hardly anyone goes to church at Christmas . |
| 5 | He was wearing a translucent gossamer painglove that hardly anyone else could see . |
| 6 | A later Murdoch novel , The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , explores in the same unblinking fashion an aspect of human selfhood from another angle : its ageing hero , living cheerfully for himself and cooking dishes that hardly anyone else would want to eat , suddenly rediscovers a lost love , is deranged enough to kidnap her , fails to regain her love in captivity and is forced to accept , by the end , that his old self-sufficient life is all there is or can ever be . |
| 7 | There was no reason why this man should n't be out on the moor on a fine spring night , except that hardly anyone but Stephen ever was . |
| 8 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 9 | Julius had told her that hardly anyone knew he owned this house . |
| 10 | There are several clumps of the non-climbing spring sweet pea Lathyrus vernus ‘ that hardly anybody grows ’ : it has small purple and blue flowers and helps to fill out the border . |
| 11 | er and it 's written in a language that hardly anybody can understand anyway . |
| 12 | He said something like ‘ Those of you who are familiar with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome ’ , and it turned out that hardly anybody was . |