Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sarawak , which produces one fifth of the world 's tropical timber , has proved a hard case for the ITTO . |
| 3 | Bono , the insurgent , irrepressible singer for Dublin quartet U2 , finishes making a hard point using a typically animated gesture . |
| 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 the Government needs to take a hard look at the future and the form the nuclear industry should take . |
| 9 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 10 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 11 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 12 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 13 | But those I did see seemed to have a harder time . |
| 14 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 15 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 16 | Got to spin a hard luck story , something of that sort . |
| 17 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 18 | Ishmael had been reared experiencing a hard life in the desert , suffering from hunger , thirst , loneliness — but I need not think about that again — not today . |
| 19 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 21 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ANDY NICOL could n't have had a harder act to follow than Armstrong . |
| 25 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 26 | You could read very little into Went to see A Hard Day 's Night — Fab or Went swimming at CC . |
| 27 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 28 | Because she did have a hard life . |
| 29 | ‘ Cameron always did take a hard line on these things , ’ she tells her . |
| 30 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |