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 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 .
5 They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children .
6 " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . "
7 Those organizations , most notably the Countryside Commission , which have earnestly attempted to reconcile the viewpoints of farmers and environmentalists have had a hard time .
8 Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time .
9 ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice .
10 ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied .
11 ‘ 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 . ’
12 She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time .
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