Example sentences of "hardly [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I hardly expected you before midnight . ’ |
| 2 | He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly recognised you in that sharp gear ! ’ she teased him . |
| 4 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 5 | He said you were very kind to him , you and Miguel — hardly hurt him at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I hardly knew her at all , ’ said Guy , unconcernedly , ‘ only she happened to mention it once . ’ |
| 7 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 8 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 9 | The Germans hardly shelled us at all . |
| 10 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 11 | These seven authorities had constantly exceeded government expenditure targets and had frequently engaged in ‘ socialist ’ policies which hardly endeared them to the Thatcher government . |