Example sentences of "give [noun] [art] hard time " in BNC.

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1 Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time .
2 ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ?
3 ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job .
4 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 ) .
5 He said Hill would be giving Senna a hard time .
6 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 .
7 Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time .
8 He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time .
9 He would have given Archie a hard time , I 'm sure of it .
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