Example sentences of "[verb] [art] hard time " in BNC.
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1 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
2 | The tourists anticipate a harder time than recent evidence in Welsh and Irish rugby might have suggested to them . |
3 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
4 | Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time . |
5 | ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice . |
6 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
7 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
8 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
9 | You 've sure had a hard time , Yvonne ; let's hope a copy of PowerPoint will cheer you up . |
10 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
11 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
12 | Those organizations , most notably the Countryside Commission , which have earnestly attempted to reconcile the viewpoints of farmers and environmentalists have had a hard time . |
13 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
14 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
15 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
16 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |
17 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
18 | The Swans are playing some outstanding rugby these days and , although they were given a hard time of it against Dunvant in the last round , it is always difficult to combat gritty opponents who feel they have nothing to lose . |
19 | DEC 's Alpha , meanwhile , was given a hard time for being late into the market . |
20 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
21 | In all election campaigns , incumbent governments are going to be given a harder time than the Opposition . |
22 | But does their mother think they get a hard time at school from the locals ? |
23 | But the Chancellor may have a hard time explaining why the pound has to shadow the Deutschmark . |
24 | COMEDY-thrillers could have a hard time without small black books that disappear containing the clue to mysterious fortunes . |
25 | Some officials have spoken of getting NATO to spread its wings , though they might have a hard time persuading the Canadians and Europeans of that . |
26 | They 'd have a hard time proving that , I think , if they were interested in proof ; which I 'm not sure they are . |
27 | The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time . |
28 | 1992 , 28 , 46 ) will have a hard time in industry . |
29 | Betty and Joanne must have a hard time managing . ’ |
30 | Even though it offers compensation to people who have already bought shops or flats , Albania 's court system , now being rebuilt from scratch after almost 30 years without a justice ministry , will have a hard time sorting out property disputes . |