Example sentences of "have [verb] a hard time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 2 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 7 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 8 | Those organizations , most notably the Countryside Commission , which have earnestly attempted to reconcile the viewpoints of farmers and environmentalists have had a hard time . |
| 9 | Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |