Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Danziger was not an ugly woman but the Colonel had had to take a long hard look to discover her good features : her bone structure ; strong fair hair streaked with less fair strands ; her pale complexion , unpainted . |
| 2 | Alright , we 're gon na have to do a well hard copy here . |
| 3 | I feel your response — ‘ Bad news Dave , you 've got a dicky hard disk ’ — was alarmist , to say the least . |
| 4 | The black polo shirt and close-fitting denim Bermudas had moulded a lean hard chest and long , aggressively muscled legs . |
| 5 | out so you just , so maybe just , maybe , I 've taken a slight hard line to say no , people have got to make a wee bit effort too , but maybe in fact |
| 6 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |