Hardly had my uncle touched the bird when ____________.

Complete sentence টি হচ্ছে- Hardly had my uncle touched the bird when it flew away. 

• Hardly এর ব্যবহার: 
- Hardly + past perfect tense- এরূপে ব্যবহৃত হয়। 
- Structure: Hardly had + subject + verb (past participle) + Object + when + Subject + verb (past) + Object. 
- এভাবে একই অর্থে scarcely had ....... when/before এরূপে ব্যবহৃত হয়। 

Source: A Passage to the English Language by S. M. Zakir Hussain.