Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 2 | But he gave me a hard time . |
| 3 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 4 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 5 | Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout . |
| 6 | On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off . |
| 7 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 8 | And in return , no doubt , you gave him a good time in bed ! ’ |
| 9 | And gave him a wild time . |
| 10 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 11 | The press gave him a hard time for his swing and his technique , but I love his attitude . |
| 12 | Mankiewicz always refuted stories that Sinatra gave him a hard time on the set , but one of Mankiewicz 's sons said that his father ‘ finished the picture hating Sinatra ’ . |
| 13 | It seems that the seductive Suzie gave him a hard time one way and another . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 15 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 16 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |