Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] hard [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We should pay the coaches to go to tournaments and watch and perhaps they could put over to the kids how hard they have to work ’ |
| 2 | Nobody else , no matter how hard they try , can force you to do anything . |
| 3 | The historian N.N. Brailsford , echoing German opinion , called the Poles a primitive unschooled race and went on to say that no matter how hard they tried , the Allied politicians would never manage to replace the industrial and intellectual skills of the German workforce with the likes of the Poles . |
| 4 | Northampton wo n't be able to help themselves , they will feel complacent no matter how hard they try not to be . |
| 5 | Both are held to economic ransom by a system that ensures they can never free themselves of debt — no matter how hard they try . |
| 6 | No matter how hard they try , things are n't going their way and on Saturday it was Swansea 's turn to take advantage . |
| 7 | Children are subjected every day to newspaper and television news bulletins revealing the brutality and ugliness of the world and no matter how hard we try we could never successfully protect our young from the harsh reality of our violent world . |
| 8 | We will never catch up with this galaxy , no matter how hard we try . |
| 9 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 10 | No matter how hard he pulled , from every angle , he could not lift the front cover . |
| 11 | Laidlaw 's hand was on his P220 automatic but he knew he could n't fire it , no matter how hard he tried . |
| 12 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 13 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 14 | No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become . |
| 15 | The world , thought Wilson that night , was crumbling around her no matter how hard she tried . |
| 16 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 17 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 18 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |
| 19 | The door would n't open , no matter how hard she shoved . |
| 20 | Beside him , Melanie was acutely conscious of her clumsy hands and the long legs she could not arrange elegantly , no matter how hard she tried . |
| 21 | She swayed to and fro ; she almost slipped down onto the ground beside the dead queen in the mud but Finn kept hold of her no matter how hard she struck at him , lightly clasping her shoulders so that she would not fall . |
| 22 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 23 | She possessed a vivid imagination , but somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could not envisage herself ever calling this man Alexander . |
| 24 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 25 | But , no matter how hard she fought to squash it , a flicker of excitement continued to torment her , like the buzz of a mosquito that just would n't go away . |
| 26 | No matter how hard she tries to give up , she still admits to smoking the occasional cigarette . |
| 27 | No matter how hard I hit him he was there in front of me . ’ |
| 28 | For the truth was , no matter how hard I found to suppress it , I was becoming impatient with Jim . |
| 29 | No matter how hard I concentrate I always end up clambering out of a manhole in Duke Ellington Boulevard with a dustbin-lid on my head . |
| 30 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |