Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a hard [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Why do I have a hard time , and there 's the Godless person prospering ?
2 I had a hard day .
3 I had a hard night , ’ she said .
4 And , since I could not admit that I often found Nonni both difficult and boring , I had a hard time with myself .
5 I had a hard time getting through Ulysses , ’ I responded as lightly as I could .
6 I had a hard job keeping my face straight . ’
7 I had a hard job convincing them otherwise . ’
8 I have a hard head . ’
9 Having watched someone die after being put in succession on steroids , Opren and Distalgesic , I have a hard time trying to be objective .
10 I do n't know about you but I have a hard time believing that .
11 I have a hard job preventing Rainbow from trampling several dozen old ladies , babes in arms , and colossally pregnant matrons , in her eagerness to join the queue .
12 She has a hard act to follow ; it is never enviable to be the successor of one very powerful founder director be it in the gallery sector or in commerce .
13 Have you had a hard day at the office ?
14 You 've a hard court , then ? ’ asked Breeze , wondering at his exuberance .
15 She had a hard shell like an oyster .
16 She had a hard life , ’ said Rose sharply , not looking at him .
17 For all that she was twenty-one , she had a hard job to smother giggles as hysterical as a schoolgirl 's .
18 And you have a hard metal sliding against a soft metal , because that actually produces less wear than two hard metals rubbing together .
19 And yet some people come and say — ‘ Oh you have a hard time , with no washing machine and no hoover ’ , but they 're the ones who moan !
20 And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway .
21 Coventry used to be one of the best teams in England … they 've won the cup twice … now they 're in the second division and they had a hard time on saturday … five penalty kicks saw them through … with three tries … none of which were that dazzling … it was Hereford who entertained … their last try was something special something to remember …
22 They have a hard row to hoe .
23 It has erect leaves , usually unspotted , which form a hood at the tip and are keeled — that is they have a hard ridge running along the centre of the underside .
24 His successor , Per Nielsen , comes with impressive credentials but as he will be well aware , he has a hard act to follow .
25 He has a hard master to satisfy , and nowhere else to go . ’
26 I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him .
27 But , according to Elland Road boss Howard Wilkinson , he has a hard task to follow the performance of Belgian official Alphonse Constantin in the second round first leg at Ibrox .
28 It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose .
29 In fact he had a hard life , battling against the taxman , factory fires , ill health and , on top of all that , a serious car-crash .
30 She says he had a hard life :
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