Example sentences of "[conj] i can hardly [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
| 2 | " 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 . " |
| 3 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 4 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 5 | I 'm sure , rationally , that what happened next actually did happen , but when I write it down , even now after all this time , it seems so amazing to me that I can hardly believe it was true . |
| 6 | The light may be so poor that I can hardly see anything at all anyway . |
| 7 | I have n't seen her handwriting for so long that I can hardly remember what it 's like . |
| 8 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 9 | Still , I 'm no fool ; a chance like this does n't come along every day , so I can hardly pass it up . |
| 10 | I am thin but I can hardly move my bulk , I go round and round numbly under the ice of the North Pole . |
| 11 | He 's calling out to me now but I can hardly hear him because I 'm screaming so hard , wetting my pants as I squeeze the screams out . |
| 12 | but I can hardly remember what we decided but it seems that we 've now got |
| 13 | I think I know what it is , but I can hardly believe it . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |