Sentence examples for had performed hard from inspiring English sources
All of the engines had performed hard war service, and had been operated for double the recommended mileage.
For Mr. Reilly, 34, and Mr. Hoffman, 32, whose profiles have been increasingly burnished by the three films they have performed in together -- "Hard Eight," "Boogie Nights" and the current "Magnolia," all directed by Paul Thomas Anderson -- the lure of "True West" was both the stature of the play and the opportunity to make use of their friendship onstage.
Howarth has performed well locally, but it's hard to see Petrie's dissatisfaction with the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era flowing through another electoral cycle.
Then again, the way Busch has performed during the 10-race runoff, he might be hard to catch.
Overall though, it's been hard to get overly excited by the way they have performed.
He has performed the ritual for 30 years, but he has never worked as hard as he has in the last three weeks.
It has been hard to get a good, independent sense of how Evan Greenberg might have performed as chief executive.
It's hard to square the motto of investor advocate with the way they've performed the last eight years".
The hardest part of assembling a playoff-caliber team is acquiring the stars, a task the Mets have performed admirably.
They have performed heroically".
