Example sentences of "it was hard for [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was hard for her to believe that it had been Charley , her Charley , who had killed three boys . |
| 4 | In fact , it was hard for her to keep up her end of the conversation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was hard for him to scrape together more than a few coppers at a time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 9 | His hands were shaking , and it was hard for him to stand in the terrible screaming wind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it was hard for us to see exactly how we had altered , beyond having some rough edges polished off and getting a better focus on some of our ideas and ambitions . |