Example sentences of "i hardly dare " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps — though I hardly dare pen the thought — perhaps , perhaps I am beginning to glimpse or sense out of this pain and this cold and this exhaustion and this fear and this hunger the presence or the comfort of some other thing , some other force more powerful or resilient than my own weakening frame . |
| 2 | But I hardly dare think it . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly dare go into a room without permission , let alone open a drawer without your daughter throwing a fit and shouting at me , ‘ Do n't look — it 's a surprise ! ’ ’ |
| 4 | My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it . |
| 5 | I hardly dare tell anyone . ’ |
| 6 | Residual scenes from dreadful other memories play like lice inside veins I hardly dare look on as mine . |
| 7 | I hardly dare think about that . |
| 8 | ( 28 ) I just sat there and it seemed I hardly dare breathe for a minute or two . |
| 9 | I hardly dare mention traffic calming but it does seem to be the flavour of of the month at the moment but to see that the existing work doubled by and I know it 's going to cost the county erm this but if you do n't want to talk about the children and their crime it is er traffic calming it certainly is a and I do believe |
| 10 | I hardly dare believe it . |
| 11 | . I hardly dare say this in this context , but if we well now the Council has taken a decision to close this elderly person 's home , there is actually a logic to it , which I 'd like to talk about . |