Example sentences of "have [art] rough [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One side has a similar effect to deep black crushed velvet but with a slight sheen , the reverse has a rough pile effect painted in a choice of brown , blue or grey .
2 ‘ You look like you 've had a rough night . ’
3 Then one time after we 've had a rough mission and trying to get back on flying status an'all , we flew over to your Hundredth Bomb Group field and this did the there with crew .
4 ‘ You 've had a rough ride here , have n't you ?
5 ALAN J PAKULA 'S new thriller Consenting Adults has had a rough ride from national critics .
6 The fortunes of manned space travel have had a rough ride in the past few years , with the United States finally joining Europe in questioning the costs of such programmes in times of recession .
7 ‘ I 've had a rough evening . ’
8 He 's had a rough week .
9 He 's been a really decent bloke to me and I reckon he 's had a rough deal , what with that wife of his clearing off and now this … ’
10 He 's just had a rough deal , that 's all . ’
11 ‘ Well , not exactly , I mean , I did n't think that carefully … but you have had a rough time , you must admit . ’
12 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 .
13 do you have a rough date ?
14 You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily .
15 ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . )
16 Once Columbus had found his new continent , and the discovery was common knowledge , anyone else mounting an expedition westward would have a rough idea what he would find .
17 Eventually , after some trial and error ( a lot , on complex boards ! ) you will have a rough draft of how the parts are to be arranged on the p.c.b .
18 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
19 Autumn-sown wheat ( and other cereals ) should have a rough seed-bed to avoid soil capping , particularly on silty soils , and to provide some protection to the seedlings from icy winds .
20 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 .
21 No doubt No. 6 Commando were having a rough time in their area .
22 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 .
23 We all recognise that the British farmer is having a rough time .
24 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
25 Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride .
26 EU has a range of from 6 to 7 and is said to have a rough period of 60 days , though I have never found much evidence of it .
27 Boss James Watson says it is still pretty bleak out there in the market , and removals continue to have a rough time .
28 I would n't want her to have a rough time . ’
29 ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about .
30 It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others .
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