Example sentences of "[verb] we a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a heartening thought : he might give us a hard time but , at root , Bob is on our side … |
| 2 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 3 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 4 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 5 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 6 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 7 | But they were , at that particular time with the Germans , giving us a bad time in the Western Desert . |
| 8 | well — we are sixth from bottom and I guess Pool will be giving us a hard time at Anfield after loosing against Spurs . |
| 9 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
| 10 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
| 11 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 12 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 13 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 14 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 15 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 16 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 17 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |