Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boroughmuir go to Bridgehaugh without Murry Walker and Derek Stark — on duty with the Scotland seven in Hong Kong — but new British Lion , Peter Wright , lines up at tighthead in a pack which will give Stirling a testing time . |
| 2 | Sadly , the spirit of 1992 had not reached the denizens of Elveden Forest ; not one single person played boules the whole time I was there . |
| 3 | Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time . |
| 4 | ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ? |
| 5 | They began shouting ‘ We 'll give Mosley a hot time ! ’ and ‘ To hell with the Blackshirts ! ’ |
| 6 | Combined with the preparatory work now being undertaken , that will give councils the maximum time to prepare themselves before April 1993 . |
| 7 | You can see Tom Jones-The Right Time on Saturday at 10.15 on Central . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | He expended more energy on others , aware that his flair for living , combined with his money , enabled him to give others a good time . |
| 11 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | While she was chopping she said , ‘ You 've known Ian a long time ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Have you known Harvey a long time ? ’ |
| 14 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 15 | I wish people had looked deeper and seen if for what it was — breaking down all those barriers and giving people a good time . |
| 16 | But in a business which is geared to giving people a good time , there is no doubt that there is a strong temptation to gloss over potential problems . |
| 17 | He said Hill would be giving Senna a hard time . |
| 18 | It will take Iain a long time to come to terms with his conviction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To discover that there is no difference in meaning between two forms may , of course , take children a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 22 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 23 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 24 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 25 | And it says a , i , i it 's stating things here er if you 've been wanted operation a long time the N S H er N S H that is it , yes . |
| 26 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 27 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 28 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 29 | And then suddenly she felt something running up her leg she looked down it was the spider , it had left Mademoiselle a long time ago and had secreted itself under a desk afraid of all the trampling feet around . |
| 30 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |