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 . |