Example sentences of "have [verb] a hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
| 2 | Sarawak , which produces one fifth of the world 's tropical timber , has proved a hard case for the ITTO . |
| 3 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 4 | Although Wallingford is likely to remain staunchly Tory at thforthcoming election among the business community confidence in the Government has taken a hard knock . |
| 5 | Maastricht , which enshrines many issues apart from trade and industry , has bred a hard core of Euro-rebels opposed to further European integration . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
| 7 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 8 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 9 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 10 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 11 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 14 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 17 | ANDY NICOL could n't have had a harder act to follow than Armstrong . |
| 18 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 19 | The MoD is believed to have struck a hard bargain — at somewhere between £120 million and £130 million a ship — with Swan Hunter winning the work against ‘ keen and commercial ’ competition from Yarrows on Clydeside and Cammell Laird on Merseyside . |
| 20 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 21 | You 've got a hard punch . |
| 22 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 23 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 24 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 25 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 26 | " After all , Clara , you 've had a hard year . |
| 27 | You 've had a hard day , and by the sound of it not an easy life . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , I 've had a hard day . ’ |
| 29 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 30 | ‘ I 've had a hard week . ’ |