Example sentences of "[vb base] a hard time " in BNC.

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1 The tourists anticipate a harder time than recent evidence in Welsh and Irish rugby might have suggested to them .
2 But does their mother think they get a hard time at school from the locals ?
3 ‘ Women have a harder time than men .
4 At either end of the beach , where the sea beats directly on the face of the cliffs , the crabs have a harder time of it .
5 Funnily enough it 's not the people like me who usually do get the boot in academic life , it 's the people with real talent who generally have a hard time . ’
6 Vegetarians have a hard time as the staple diet is meat and dumplings and fresh vegetables are difficult to find .
7 By contrast , books such as Randi 's have a hard time finding enthusiastic editors .
8 Having watched someone die after being put in succession on steroids , Opren and Distalgesic , I have a hard time trying to be objective .
9 I just have a hard time writing songs ; it 's just not what I do real well .
10 For example , the sanctions against non-members have played an important part in sustaining trade unions through difficult conflicts with employers : ‘ scab ’ labourers and strike-breakers have a hard time .
11 ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA .
12 And yet some people come and say — ‘ Oh you have a hard time , with no washing machine and no hoover ’ , but they 're the ones who moan !
13 " The peasants have a hard time of it all round , it seems to me .
14 I do n't know about you but I have a hard time believing that .
15 Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law .
16 Independent film productions have a hard time in this country .
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