Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a hard time " in BNC.

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1 What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ?
2 Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him .
3 Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it !
4 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 .
5 If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player .
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