Example sentences of "give [noun] a [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 | Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time . |
| 3 | ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ? |
| 4 | They began shouting ‘ We 'll give Mosley a hot time ! ’ and ‘ To hell with the Blackshirts ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | He expended more energy on others , aware that his flair for living , combined with his money , enabled him to give others a good time . |
| 8 | I wish people had looked deeper and seen if for what it was — breaking down all those barriers and giving people a good time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He said Hill would be giving Senna a hard time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 13 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 14 | He would have given Archie a hard time , I 'm sure of it . |