Example sentences of "have a hard life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catnip is an example ; Nepeta cataria is the true herb and is the catnip that has a hard life if a cat is part of the household , but Nepeta x faassenii , also sometimes called catnip , is the usual species grown in gardens , with little if any attraction for cats , though it is always alive with bees when in flower . |
| 2 | She 's had a hard life , she has — braiding fishing nets for trawlers , cleaning out the Findus offices down dock , gutting fish in the fish market . |
| 3 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 4 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 5 | Mum 's had a hard life . |
| 6 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 7 | Because she did have a hard life . |
| 8 | Forster , who committed suicide , was much hated by the other colonists , who had a hard life trying to farm in the remote swamps plagued by insects . |
| 9 | In fact he had a hard life , battling against the taxman , factory fires , ill health and , on top of all that , a serious car-crash . |
| 10 | ‘ She had a hard life , ’ said Rose sharply , not looking at him . |
| 11 | Graham had a hard life from childhood . |
| 12 | He says people of the period had a hard life , but when they celebrated they did it in style . |
| 13 | She says he had a hard life : |