Example sentences of "it be hard for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard for her to work this out . |
| 2 | In order for a fighter to fight in the state of New Jersey , he has to have a thorough medical examination , so it 's hard for me to say . ’ |
| 3 | I think it 's it 's hard for me to say because I did n't work for him for long . |
| 4 | I can imagine him saying ‘ Ah luv thee , but dunna ma'e me feel sma' ’ but it 's hard for me to picture the careful explanation and vindication of himself that comes after . |
| 5 | I expect it 's hard for them to find their feet on these shifting sands . ’ |
| 6 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , Maud , ’ pleaded Mildred , ‘ I know it 's hard for you to believe me , but that frog in the pond really is a magician and he can only be changed back by another magician . |
| 8 | Perhaps it 's hard for you to believe , but there 's one man , the most dangerous of them all , that I can never leave . |
| 9 | It is hard for them to find the relevance to their lives of the words that are being used . |
| 10 | It is hard for them to convince the rich countries to make sacrifices on their behalf . |
| 11 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 12 | For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines . |
| 13 | All aspects of education are necessary to develop a whole personality and every child has a whole personality , even if it is hard for us to see this at times . |
| 14 | It is hard for us to understand how these same principles could have been part of the radical political programme of writers as diverse as Cobbett and Gramsci . ’ |
| 15 | We think that physics is complicated because it is hard for us to understand , and because physics books are full of difficult mathematics . |
| 16 | It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions . |
| 17 | It is hard for us to comprehend that thousands of students have roamed and studied on ‘ our ’ campus since long before most of us were born . |
| 18 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 19 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 20 | She hesitated for a moment , a dim figure in the dark kitchen , distinguished by a brown balloon of a mob-cap and a coarse sacking apron which fell from her neck to her feet like a monstrous bib : it was hard for her to accept defeat . |
| 21 | It was hard for her to believe that it had been Charley , her Charley , who had killed three boys . |
| 22 | In fact , it was hard for her to keep up her end of the conversation . |
| 23 | If she had given him time he would have been able to show her passion , he knew , but it was hard for him to relax and act confidently after years of being cowed in a stern loveless household . |
| 24 | It was hard for him to scrape together more than a few coppers at a time . |
| 25 | It was hard for him to catch the words , because the flowerbeds had just been hoed and the birds were raucous in their search for food in the fresh-turned soil . |
| 26 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 27 | His hands were shaking , and it was hard for him to stand in the terrible screaming wind . |
| 28 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 29 | It was hard for me to leave Spain , where I was very well known and settle in Palm Springs , California , ’ says Jose Higueras , a former Davis Cup player for Spain from 1974 to 1980 . |
| 30 | Pam knew about Rosie , that we 'd done everything together and had n't been split up and that it was hard for me to leave her . |