After all - he'd hardly bother telling you that unless something had put it into his mind.

John hardly bothered to glance at the man whose nature he was trying to explain.

He turned and, hardly bothering to keep his own heart beating, went back to the University.

Hardly bothering to look up from their cards, the players told them to go to hell.

But if a ship was abandoned, the last man to leave it would hardly bother to close such a door behind him.

He was hardly bothered by the icy cold of the dead planet.

They didn't bother hitting many Rangers and hardly ever got in their way.

His right big toe, a source of so many problems last spring, hardly bothers him.

There were books aboard, and a radio to listen to, but I hardly bothered with either.

Very soon he'll be hardly bothering to take any precautions at all.