Example sentences of "[that] [pron] 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 | Mother is frowning and her hand is shaking so that she can hardly eat her desert , and I 've done that . |
| 10 | They are so virtuous that one can hardly call them pagans at all . |
| 11 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |