Example sentences of "i can hardly [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I can hardly care . |
| 2 | " I can hardly stop you . " |
| 3 | I can hardly bear to enter the room where it stands , he wrote . |
| 4 | I can hardly bear to write this down . |
| 5 | The other of a sadness I can hardly bear now to remember … |
| 6 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 7 | The pain in my left hand is such that I can hardly bear to look at it . |
| 8 | I can hardly forebear , I 'm sorry for , if it 's er , a bad pun , but er , I can hardly forbear to say that it may be that I , that diocese can do with what one might describe as a dash of the Robin Hood 's , which I think Alan may er , bring to it . |
| 9 | ‘ I can hardly miss it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can hardly miss your flashy car , can I ? |
| 11 | ‘ I can hardly cope without you . ’ |
| 12 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 13 | " 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 . " |
| 14 | I do realise , though , that I can hardly advise people to do as I did . |
| 15 | I am thin but I can hardly move my bulk , I go round and round numbly under the ice of the North Pole . |
| 16 | I can hardly hold this biro . |
| 17 | I could almost bemoan the fact that the two greatest Bach obligato violin parts ( those contained in the St. Matthew Passion ) , are not included ; but then I can hardly blame Miss Battle for not being contralto or bass ( shame though ) ! |
| 18 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 19 | ‘ I tell you I can hardly manage . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'm not it was entirely my own idea , so I can hardly complain . ’ |
| 21 | He 's up by the entrance and I can hardly go in there , can I ? ’ |
| 22 | I can hardly suppose that she sat for you or that it was commissioned . ‘ |
| 23 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
| 24 | They are especially gifted and I can hardly think of a sport in which the eye is not the essential informer of the mind . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm so tired I can hardly think straight . ’ |
| 26 | I can hardly bring myself to tell you . |
| 27 | Look , I can hardly stand . ’ |
| 28 | I can hardly stand up at the best of times — which is n't surprising when the only ice I 'm interested in is in my Scotch on the rocks ! |
| 29 | And I can hardly stand the smell , I 'm so ashamed in the mornings . |
| 30 | I can hardly stand … ’ |