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

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1 His successor , Per Nielsen , comes with impressive credentials but as he will be well aware , he has a hard act to follow .
2 He has a hard master to satisfy , and nowhere else to go . ’
3 I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 She says he had a hard life :
7 He had a hard edge to his voice .
8 He had a hard race at Newbury , following one the previous week behind Man O Magic at Ascot , but as a six-year-old he looks too young for something as gruelling as the Welsh National — the last six-year-old to win was Miss Gaynus in 1932 .
9 Afterwards he felt that he had a hard struggle .
10 I guessed he was in his forties and he had a hard face with small wary eyes and tightly curled hair that was cut very short .
11 Grayling found that he had a hard time getting people to take him seriously .
12 He had a hard shot in either foot and his ball control was excellent .
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