Example sentences of "[noun] a hard time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time . |
| 2 | ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ? |
| 3 | The meeting is open to the public but expect Taylor to give the banks a hard time . |
| 4 | This not only gives guidebook compilers a hard time but also stops new lines getting repeated while the weather 's good . |
| 5 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 6 | THE ‘ Grim Reaper ’ of ice hockey explained the role he has at Wembley Arena today : ‘ I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 8 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 9 | She was then able to spend occasional weekends at her daughters ' flats , but still gave the residential staff a hard time on her return . |
| 10 | He said Hill would be giving Senna a hard time . |
| 11 | The opposition , predictably , accused the Government of all sorts of things which spelt death to the arts , giving Arts Minister , Tim Renton a hard time . |
| 12 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 13 | Last night the Jewson League team put up a tremendously committed performance to underline their quality and give the visiting attackers and mid-field men a hard time . |
| 14 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 15 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 16 | He would have given Archie a hard time , I 'm sure of it . |
| 17 | The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) . |