Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] hard " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a tiny shudder he passed the hard knot of tension from him then looked up again , a faint smile at the corners of his mouth . |
| 2 | He made the hard decision to abandon the Old World . |
| 3 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 4 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 5 | It was workers of this kind , with the level of articulacy and the modicum of leisure necessary for political involvement , who provided the hard core of labour activists . |
| 6 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 7 | It was murmured throatily against the swell of her breasts , before his lips found the hard jut of her nipples and she dropped her head back with a gasp of pure delight . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll talk later — much later … ’ he murmured softly , slipping an arm beneath her trembling body so that her breasts were lifted towards him , his lips trailing a scorching path over her quivering flesh , a deep ache gripping her loins as his mouth sought and found the hard swollen peaks of her breasts . |
| 9 | They seemed to be paralysed as they encountered the hard wall of his chest , and his lips covered hers and met no resistance at all . |
| 10 | Coade stone is a kind of fired ceramic , whose recipe was secret and is still not entirely understood , which provided a hard smooth surface that was resistant to frost . |
| 11 | His face tightened into a grim mask and he cast a hard look up the stairs . |
| 12 | Last night , both sides promised a hard but fair battle . |
| 13 | Jack sat down in the basket chair vacated by Alison , making it creak prodigiously , hauled himself up again , found a hard upright kitchen chair and sat on that . |
| 14 | When I first turned it on , it reported a hard disk failure . |
| 15 | That paper found no hard evidence linking predatory pricing and negligent auditing . |
| 16 | Trembling , she ran her fingers over the taut muscles of his chest , and feverishly explored the hard length of him . |
| 17 | She kneaded his back , and touched the plane of his belly , and explored the hard , sinewy mounds of his arms . |
| 18 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 19 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 20 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 21 | But , and it is a big but , I learnt the hard way and have been proven in practice . |
| 22 | Mrs Burrows learnt the hard way . |
| 23 | The evidence showed , according to Mr Craven , that wherever individual party members were given the one member , one vote opportunity to voice their views , they rejected the hard left . |
| 24 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 25 | Lamb arrived , and before he had scored Patel dropped a hard slash straight at him at comfortable height . |
| 26 | Risky looks the pick on form but suffered a harder race than ideal at Sandown last time , and it may be worth taking a chance with Snipe Hall a real pork pie among the caviar here from the minor league stable of Melton Mowbray trainer John Wharton . |
| 27 | Risky looks the pick on form but suffered a harder race than ideal at Sandown last time , and it may be worth taking a chance with Snipe Hall a real pork pie among the caviar here from the minor league stable of Melton Mowbray trainer John Wharton . |
| 28 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 29 | Mrs Ainsworth lifted a hard rubber bail from the sideboard and went out to the garden , followed by Buster . |
| 30 | Rima picked up the cassowary in his strong arms and clasped the hard thigh muscles with both hands while Joseph sawed through the creepers . |