Example sentences of "a hard time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 2 | You complain about your friends never coming to see you , but when they do come , you give them such a hard time it 's hardly surprising they stay away . |
| 3 | Jeff had a hard time with me . |
| 4 | Funnily enough it 's not the people like me who usually do get the boot in academic life , it 's the people with real talent who generally have a hard time . ’ |
| 5 | Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time . |
| 6 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 7 | This not only gives guidebook compilers a hard time but also stops new lines getting repeated while the weather 's good . |
| 8 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 9 | But the Chancellor may have a hard time explaining why the pound has to shadow the Deutschmark . |
| 10 | Vegetarians have a hard time as the staple diet is meat and dumplings and fresh vegetables are difficult to find . |
| 11 | COMEDY-thrillers could have a hard time without small black books that disappear containing the clue to mysterious fortunes . |
| 12 | Do n't give me a hard time , McLeish , just bloody do it . ’ |
| 13 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 14 | Some officials have spoken of getting NATO to spread its wings , though they might have a hard time persuading the Canadians and Europeans of that . |
| 15 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 16 | But even the heavily biased reports from the Propaganda Offices were obliged to admit that criticism of Hitler and grave doubts in his alleged ‘ strategic genius ’ were mounting sharply , and that those still believing his words that 1945 would bring a ‘ historic turning-point ’ in Germany 's fortunes had a hard time against the doubters . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice . |
| 18 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 19 | Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout . |
| 20 | ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ? |
| 21 | The sailors were dropping off the stern ladder into the tender as he reached the dock , and with the tender pitching in the steep lop , they were having a hard time . |
| 22 | They 'd have a hard time proving that , I think , if they were interested in proof ; which I 'm not sure they are . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time . |
| 25 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 26 | And why was it that this deep empathy with the hard done by inspired her to give him such a hard time ? |
| 27 | 1992 , 28 , 46 ) will have a hard time in industry . |
| 28 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 29 | By contrast , books such as Randi 's have a hard time finding enthusiastic editors . |
| 30 | Having watched someone die after being put in succession on steroids , Opren and Distalgesic , I have a hard time trying to be objective . |