Example sentences of "it be hard [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit . |
| 2 | Grendon starts doing its best work after 18 months , but it 's hard work getting there . |
| 3 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 4 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 5 | Well I do n't know what it does , but the only reason you ca n't get it off is you 're not working it , it 's hard work to get it off Dawn . |
| 6 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 7 | It is hard work to sort out facts from a lot of woolly detail , worse still if the main word is forgotten in mid-stream . |
| 8 | It was hard work getting paid , as well . |
| 9 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 10 | ‘ It was hard work handling the trusses . |
| 11 | You know I men sort of you know , for very little , like the Conservative Party you know , it was hard work lugging all the you know , you pack it all up , you lug it all there . |
| 12 | It was hard work trying to understand Franco and by the end of the last telling of the story Sandison was happy to accept a second , though rather smaller , whisky . |
| 13 | It was hard work pulling the ship , and the men argued . |
| 14 | They were all set to poling now , and it was hard work navigating the flatboat upstream . |