Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher . |
| 2 | ‘ Mister , you 're givin' me a hard time , you are , and just when I 'm thinking I 've met a real gent for a change . |
| 3 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 4 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 5 | While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user . |
| 6 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 7 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 8 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 9 | The man had a faint discoloration under one eye — he could n't help speculating whether Dotty had n't been giving him a hard time . |
| 10 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 11 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 12 | It seemed to be testing him the whole time . |
| 13 | well — we are sixth from bottom and I guess Pool will be giving us a hard time at Anfield after loosing against Spurs . |
| 14 | We d Okay we do n't know , we want to ask them we w So if you are an MP in North Yorkshire and er you think I 'm giving you a hard time and I know you sneakily listen to this programme , I know you listen . |
| 15 | ‘ That lumbar puncture seems to be taking them a long time . ’ |
| 16 | Oh yes been making it a long time . |
| 17 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 18 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 19 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 20 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 21 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 22 | I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 24 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 26 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 27 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 28 | ‘ Something was bothering you the first time we met , and you kept quiet about that , too . |