Example sentences of "give [noun] 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 | ‘ The BBC will never give Paddy a hard time , will they ? |
| 3 | Often , conservative ex-communists , impatient radicals or politicians seeking to capitalize on popular discontent can give presidents a hard ride . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 5 | The European Commission must now decide whether to give broadcasters a harder push towards D2 MAC or bow to lack of interest . |
| 6 | I aim to give Alain a hard race and go for my hat-trick . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He said Hill would be giving Senna a hard time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though Sam was the younger of the two , he was not afraid of giving Carl a hard kick on the tochas ( arse ) if he had stepped out of line . |
| 11 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 12 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 13 | He would have given Archie a hard time , I 'm sure of it . |