Example sentences of "[verb] [art] rough time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , not exactly , I mean , I did n't think that carefully … but you have had a rough time , you must admit . ’
2 A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children .
3 Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan .
4 According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January .
5 Sure her her sister was coming er down , er t Carole was coming down Donegal Avenue one night and said to John fuck some woman 's gon na have a rough time she says
6 Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her .
7 No doubt No. 6 Commando were having a rough time in their area .
8 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
9 We all recognise that the British farmer is having a rough time .
10 Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed
11 Boss James Watson says it is still pretty bleak out there in the market , and removals continue to have a rough time .
12 I would n't want her to have a rough time . ’
13 ‘ Bolfracks had a rough time , then ? ’
14 You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty .
15 Two years ago , for example , I had a rough time .
16 Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior .
17 ‘ Fish-curing was hard work : we had a rough time .
18 He used to teach English in a comprehensive school and he probably had a rough time of it .
19 have a rough time of it at the moment … ’
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