Example sentences of "hardly [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm , we hardly got to see as much of each other , because we were like , in this group of ten people , and then , and so like one time we skied off piste , and we just had this massive snowball fight off piste , it was like really funny . |
| 2 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly got to know her , ’ he said quickly , looking away . |
| 4 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , we hardly expected to wind up here , did we ? ’ |
| 6 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 7 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 8 | It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom . |
| 9 | There were two entire sections of medical works , mostly in French , including many — they hardly seemed to go with spiritualism — on psychiatry , and another two of scientific books of all kinds ; several shelves of philosophical works , and also a fair number of botanical and ornithological books , mostly in English and German ; but the great majority of the rest were autobiographies and biographies . |
| 10 | Niceness and Lily 's cruel life at the moment hardly seemed to go . |
| 11 | Paris may have slipped behind Birmingham in the calendar this year but it hardly seemed to matter . |
| 12 | Lying to Manville about the 48 hours grace hardly seemed to matter , in that context . |
| 13 | Nicholson did n't turn , hardly seemed to acknowledge the other voice . |
| 14 | Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in . |
| 15 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , it hardly seemed to need such drastic treatment as thrashing , ’ said Rupert . |
| 17 | I really must watch what I say — he has a mind like a knife ; but aloud she said , doing her best to look distressed , ‘ Oh , he had a run of bad luck — ’ an explanation that hardly seemed to convince her hearer . |
| 18 | She looked out of the window but hardly seemed to register what she saw . |
| 19 | Yet Jonathon and Victoria hardly seemed to feel the lack of a mother . |
| 20 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 21 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 22 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 23 | She could see his disdain , and it was n't so much for her — she hardly seemed to count for anything at all in his eyes . |
| 24 | – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s . |
| 25 | The Poles hardly began to populate the mines of the Ruhr before 1890 though the Czech were moving south into Vienna . |
| 26 | Of course , we hardly needed to say , as we made our way upstairs , that we were both nervous wrecks . |
| 27 | The Lancashire Cup is the only trophy to elude coach John Monie in his three-year reign though they hardly needed to break sweat against helpless Swinton with Frano Botica booting 11 goals from 15 attempts . |
| 28 | The traditional Grand Tour of the young nobleman had not yet even the Grand Hotel in common with the tourism of the capitalist era , partly because this institution was only now developing — initially as often as not in connection with a railway — partly because noblemen hardly deigned to stop at inns . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I hardly liked to ask him that ! ’ |
| 30 | She hardly liked to admit that she wanted one herself |