Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , I 've had a hard day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a hard week . ’ |
| 4 | " After all , Clara , you 've had a hard year . |
| 5 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 6 | You 've had a hard day , and by the sound of it not an easy life . |
| 7 | You 've got a hard punch . |
| 8 | You 've hired a hard boat — at great cost — but the skipper insists the weather is too bad to reach your planned site . |
| 9 | Under his suit she had sensed a hard fit body . |
| 10 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 11 | You have had a hard morning . |
| 12 | A bit complicated : you have to get a hard core of guests and relatives over to the Register Office first ; then rendezvous at the church ; then get back to the drink-up . |
| 13 | She 's had a hard life , she has — braiding fishing nets for trawlers , cleaning out the Findus offices down dock , gutting fish in the fish market . |
| 14 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 15 | But she 's had a hard season and lost 17 kilos in weight after her latest win at York . |
| 16 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've driven a hard bargain — it 's not a question of charity ! |
| 18 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 19 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 20 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 21 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 24 | He 's got a hard act to follow |