Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [art] difficult [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a difficult time at one airport on a visit during the 1987 election . |
| 2 | She had a difficult labour as , having no details , the curvature of her spine was not detected . |
| 3 | ‘ We had a difficult start to this season and our defence was making mistakes . |
| 4 | We had a difficult job starting the car . |
| 5 | Er , well , they had a difficult job , they had a difficult job you see , because they 'd got to keep explaining to you why you had n't got a rifle . |
| 6 | Er , well , they had a difficult job , they had a difficult job you see , because they 'd got to keep explaining to you why you had n't got a rifle . |
| 7 | He had a difficult time , having largely to rebuild the fleet in a period when every shipyard had an order book as long as your arm . |
| 8 | that he had a difficult job and that he was anxious to make things easy for his Liberal supporters . |
| 9 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |
| 10 | He had the difficult task of taking the field around and beyond the covert and getting them to stand well back before he could attend to his hounds . |