1.   Bodie flung himself to the window-sill, leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground.

2.   Goodman was always hard up and enjoyed the friendship and generosity of friends such as Francis Bacon who would help him out.

3.   The media are obviously hard up for stories.

4.   The fact that BBC and ITV rarely use the old test card any more means that people playing this anonymous instrumental pap are hard up for work.

5.   A cynic might quip that the Norwegians must be hard up for heroes.

6.   But American independents are always hard up.

7.   By the time the film was finished, the parent company had become hard up for cash.

8.   Employers were often as hard up as the travelers.

9.   Gass said it appeared the Red Sox were hard up.

10.   One might think a company so hard up for cash that it pays lawyers with stock would not spend money promoting the stock.