Example sentences of "gave [pers pn] [art] hard time " in BNC.

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1 But he gave me a hard time .
2 Yet Wakefield gave them a hard time throughout .
3 On reaching the Spanish borders where officials gave them a hard time , Norman thought it advisable if Minton drove off .
4 The press gave him a hard time for his swing and his technique , but I love his attitude .
5 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 ’ .
6 It seems that the seductive Suzie gave him a hard time one way and another . ’
7 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 .
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