Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] hard [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 2 | Shiona threw him a hard look . |
| 3 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 4 | She opened her mouth and closed it again and gave me a hard look . |
| 5 | The cop gave me a hard look and moved off . |
| 6 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 7 | But he gave me a hard time . |
| 8 | Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout . |
| 9 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 10 | ‘ Good afternoon , ’ she said tightly , which earned her a hard elbow in the ribs from Mandy . |
| 11 | I gave him a hard look . |
| 12 | I gave him a hard look . |
| 13 | Robyn gave him a hard look . |
| 14 | The press gave him a hard time for his swing and his technique , but I love his attitude . |
| 15 | Mankiewicz always refuted stories that Sinatra gave him a hard time on the set , but one of Mankiewicz 's sons said that his father ‘ finished the picture hating Sinatra ’ . |
| 16 | It seems that the seductive Suzie gave him a hard time one way and another . ’ |
| 17 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 18 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 19 | Quinn pushed open the street-door , which opened outwards , closed it behind him , dropped a wooden wedge he had carved in the privacy of the toilet under the sill and gave it a hard kick . |
| 20 | He gave us a hard stare as he passed , very slowly . |
| 21 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |