Example sentences of "[Wh adv] hard he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 2 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 3 | She had been surprised how hard he worked on the place . |
| 4 | Prod him , and he will start to tell you how hard he worked to make his low-budget block-buster . |
| 5 | Laidlaw 's hand was on his P220 automatic but he knew he could n't fire it , no matter how hard he tried . |
| 6 | Before , she had understood his choice in a theoretical fashion ; now she was seeing what that choice meant , and how hard he tried for his poor patients , and for such little return other than the simple and offered faith of the poor , suffering girl on the bed . |
| 7 | MY SON is a teacher and I 've seen how hard he has worked to make the new national curriculum a success in his classroom . |
| 8 | When he runs , you can see , you can feel , how hard he has tried to get to this position of being the fastest sprinter in Europe . |
| 9 | No matter how hard he pulled , from every angle , he could not lift the front cover . |
| 10 | He could n't flesh her out , however hard he studied the picture . |
| 11 | He just ca n't hit the target however hard he tries . |
| 12 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 13 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 14 | Evidently he thought that a person can quite properly use the word ‘ here ’ without knowing , either by acquaintance or description , some thing which is what the word means , but that the word ‘ I ’ is different , and therefore that someone who can not , however hard he introspects , discover some thing which is what the word means , should not use it . |
| 15 | However hard he tried , he somehow always failed to be the son she wanted ; the son she truly deserved . |
| 16 | The image of suddenly being called in to take over from George Birkitt and astounding the critics with his unsung brilliance was one that would not go away , however hard he tried to suppress it . |