Example sentences of "have [verb] a hard " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Whatever the rights and wrongs of that matter , Mr Evans has had a hard , lonely fight and it 's made him bitter against those who have n't . |
2 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
3 | Sarawak , which produces one fifth of the world 's tropical timber , has proved a hard case for the ITTO . |
4 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
5 | Although Wallingford is likely to remain staunchly Tory at thforthcoming election among the business community confidence in the Government has taken a hard knock . |
6 | Maastricht , which enshrines many issues apart from trade and industry , has bred a hard core of Euro-rebels opposed to further European integration . |
7 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
8 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
9 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
10 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
11 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
12 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
13 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
14 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
15 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
16 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
17 | ANDY NICOL could n't have had a harder act to follow than Armstrong . |
18 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
19 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
20 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
21 | The MoD is believed to have struck a hard bargain — at somewhere between £120 million and £130 million a ship — with Swan Hunter winning the work against ‘ keen and commercial ’ competition from Yarrows on Clydeside and Cammell Laird on Merseyside . |
22 | Under his suit she had sensed a hard fit body . |
23 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
24 | You 've got a hard punch . |
25 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
26 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
29 | " After all , Clara , you 've had a hard year . |
30 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |