Example sentences of "i hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do … |
| 2 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly expected you before midnight . ’ |
| 4 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 5 | ‘ Your generation just was n't educated , Pop , but I can tell you I hardly know anyone who does n't read French . |
| 6 | Of course I hardly knew him . |
| 7 | I hardly ever write letters any more . |
| 8 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 9 | ‘ I hardly ever wear dresses as they never fit — you always see me in shorts . |
| 10 | I hardly knew what to say to this , so remained silent . |
| 11 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 12 | I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake . |
| 13 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 14 | Skiing without tears , I hardly think . |
| 15 | ‘ I hardly think that we need to do that . ’ |
| 16 | I hardly think we can afford beef , particularly uneatable beef , such as the piece you cooked for us yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But I hardly dare think it . |
| 19 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 20 | But I hardly ever come over here . |
| 21 | I only said ‘ was ’ because I hardly ever see him any more . |
| 22 | Considering I hardly knew the guy , it was a very nice touch . |
| 23 | ‘ I hardly read any books , ’ she says . |
| 24 | I hardly know the woman , but she seems to know me inside out . |
| 25 | ‘ I hardly met anybody that looked ‘ right ’ all the way from Alexanderplatz to the Zoo . ’ |
| 26 | Now I hardly think that would have been acceptable , either to the people of Britain , let alone to the mining areas , or to some of those |
| 27 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 28 | Although the Owner 's Name I hardly knew ; |
| 29 | ‘ I hardly know where to begin . |
| 30 | ‘ I hardly think that my demonstration , added to that fact , would make everything clear , ’ Catherine objected . |