Example sentences of "hardly [vb past] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 2 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 3 | Largely established during the colonial era , it hardly changed at all after independence . |
| 4 | Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper . |
| 5 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 6 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 7 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 8 | Firmly bandaged , it hardly protested at all . |
| 9 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 10 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 11 | He sang the songs that related quite indirectly to the next mime that took place and there was a slight story linking the whole thing — very slight harlequinade story — but it hardly mattered at all . |
| 12 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 13 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 14 | ‘ She certainly is , ’ he said in a voice that hardly quavered at all . |