Example sentences of "hardly [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know , ’ he said , ‘ in all my stay here I have hardly ever seen a Russian soldier . ’ |
| 3 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 4 | There was another child , too , a girl , but at some fancy Protestant school up in Dublin , hardly ever seen around the place here . |
| 5 | Older people still tend to use Esq , but it is becoming less widespread , and it 's now hardly ever seen in America , Canada , Australia or New Zealand . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've hardly ever seen you look so lovely , ma'am . ’ |
| 7 | They lived a reclusive life and were hardly ever seen . |
| 8 | With activities going on every day and most evenings we hardly ever saw our two . |
| 9 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 10 | We hardly ever saw him . |
| 11 | ‘ I hardly ever saw him , ’ she said , ‘ but we used to talk on the phone for hours . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyhow , the problem was that we hardly ever saw any young men , so how on earth could she start courting ? |
| 13 | After her mother 's untimely death through cancer , Doreen 's father returned to England where he put the eight-year-old in the care of an au pair and hardly ever saw her , except to exert some strong-handed discipline when Doreen had done something to displease either the au pair or himself . |
| 14 | No-one had ever offered them cookies before , particularly not their strange-sounding neighbour , whom they hardly ever saw . |
| 15 | During that first two weeks of running through the forest , it was all Mike could do to keep up , as Christophe pursued chimps that Mike hardly ever saw . |
| 16 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 17 | I hardly ever saw them together , and Marius never talked about Nigel . |
| 18 | ‘ I hardly ever saw a doctor . |
| 19 | Come to that , she had only one uncle , her father 's brother Eric , and she hardly ever saw him . |
| 20 | Think how it feels to be a black child looking at books , advertisements , films , TV , and hardly ever seeing a similar face — the message that comes across is that there is no place for black people in our society . |
| 21 | I only said ‘ was ’ because I hardly ever see him any more . |
| 22 | I bet that 's why we hardly ever see them . |
| 23 | His tenants — he sublets — hardly ever see him , and deal with his estate manager . |
| 24 | These days you hardly ever see a child with a small rubber or tennis ball . |
| 25 | That 's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them . |
| 26 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 27 | As his neighbour I see quite a lot of him , as his colleague I hardly ever see him . |
| 28 | Yeah she she 's I I hardly ever see her but when I do |
| 29 | I hardly ever see him — I do n't even suppose he 's noticed that I 'm not there this week ! ’ |
| 30 | If you 've got a mate , a best mate , and she 's on a different house , you 'll write her a note because you hardly ever see her , and if you get caught for that you lose a couple of weeks . |