1.   But it was shaken so hard by the earthquake that Garamendi granted it rare dispensation.

2.   Customers can drive right into the courtyard of the motel, hard by the Cross-Bronx Expressway.

3.   Crying into the wind cutting around a street hard by the river.

4.   Even in a desolate, wind-whipped neighborhood hard by the ocean, the police regularly shine lights into the van in the middle of the night.

5.   Even in Virginia, hard by the Mason-Dixon line, they had to go south to find football talent.

6.   Few teams in the National Football League have been hit as hard by preseason injuries as the Giants have been.

7.   For many years, these blocks, hard by the theater district, seemed to threaten New York.

8.   For several weeks this spring, Tiburon was housed in a Tyngsborough warehouse hard by a shooting club.

9.   Had the boat been set so hard by the current that they were now on the Falmouth shore?

10.   Hard by the observatory is a feeding pen.