Example sentences of "work hard " in BNC.

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1 Where the tutorial focuses on current productions , I have found that students will work hard on their performances and be open about their work and any problems they may be having with the characters they are playing .
2 Were they ever professional , boy , did they ever work hard , well , did n't they just talk and work as if that melodrama of near separation had never happened .
3 Let us work hard ad begin a new life , the three of us — yes , yes !
4 ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now .
5 ‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’
6 The school doctor says that we should work hard , but not overwork , ’ adding a muffled ‘ ha ! ha ! ’ as , baffled , Herr Hocher retreated to the T.V. room where there was a noisy scuffle .
7 That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’
8 He will work hard at competition for a female but not so hard for food .
9 Remember that your child may ‘ work hard ’ to regain the lost reinforcement and thus may get ‘ worse ’ before getting ‘ better ’ .
10 Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way .
11 Do you work hard at them ?
12 ‘ And Christine told me , ’ continued Ginnie , ‘ that Mr Barnes threatened to have their dog put down if they did n't work hard enuff . ’
13 He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it .
14 Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics .
15 ‘ Yeah , ’ she said thoughtfully , ‘ we do work hard . ’
16 And it is n't because the workers wo n't work hard enough , not when three million do n't even have the chance .
17 Or maybe you did n't work hard enough , or had chosen subjects you really did n't enjoy , or you just were n't up to it .
18 ‘ I do work hard .
19 ‘ Let me come with you wherever you go , please , Miss Emily , you are the only family I 've ever known , I wo n't need paying , just my keep , I can still work hard , mind . ’
20 Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited .
21 But they did work hard , did n't they ? !
22 Liz , whom they liked , whom they wished to like , whom they were obliged to like , would profit , although she would work hard for her rewards .
23 Er , I think that actually , the the parents , the mother and father they just do n't work hard enough at making a marriage work !
24 ‘ First I 'd work hard , and earn a lot of money .
25 ‘ He does work hard , ’ said the young woman , looking up at Gabriel , who had not noticed her .
26 No me mother she she did work hard well we all had to do in them days .
27 She really wanted to live honestly and work hard , unlike her father .
28 I can work hard .
29 For good measure , she added , a trifle pathetically , ‘ I am a good girl , really truly , even if I ca n't give you any references , and I will work hard , I promise . ’
30 Ards make Dungannon work hard
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