ký chưa ráo mực, đã bội ướche had hardly spoken when...: nó vừa mời nói thì...hardly had their mother died when they started quarrelling: Mẹ vừa nằm xuống mà đã cãi nhauhardly had he lain down when the cook crowed: Mới đặt lưng, gà đã gáy