Example sentences of "give [noun pl] a hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time . |
| 2 | Often , conservative ex-communists , impatient radicals or politicians seeking to capitalize on popular discontent can give presidents a hard ride . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 4 | The European Commission must now decide whether to give broadcasters a harder push towards D2 MAC or bow to lack of interest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |