Example sentences of "[verb] they [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 2 | He asked them a few times . |
| 3 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 4 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 5 | I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times . |
| 6 | Eventually , he climbed them a second time , very deliberately . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 9 | Well in the Midland Bank and they were wearing them the last time you were there . |
| 10 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 11 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 12 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The Doctor had wanted to run straight back into danger , as was his wont , but she had persuaded him that on this occasion at least , some forethought and preparation would be a better idea than just leaving everything to chance and inspiration , particularly as the former seemed hell bent on giving them a hard time of things . |
| 15 | Is she giving them a hard time ? |
| 16 | Giving them a hard time down there . |
| 17 | Is she giving them a hard time ? |
| 18 | Giving them a hard time down there . |
| 19 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 20 | They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all . |
| 21 | Why not join them the next time your barometer begins to fall rapidly ? |
| 22 | ‘ That lumbar puncture seems to be taking them a long time . ’ |
| 23 | we 'll phone Chris and Keith and ask them the best time for us to go when the kids are not there , and she 'll tell us |
| 24 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 25 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 26 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 27 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 28 | Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout . |
| 29 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 30 | ‘ Defenders do n't like playing against him because he gives them a rough time but he knows what to expect from me . |