Sentence examples for was given a hard time from inspiring English sources

I did six months in jail and was given a hard time.

The Guardian did report that Cameron was given "a hard time by the audience".

God was given a hard time recently in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, coming over as little more than a washed-up irrelevance.

On Twitter, he was given a hard time for his word choice and general Bidenism, but in the confines of the convention hall he was effective.

It was given a hard time by birds known as sooty terns or wideawakes, which nest by the million on the island and won't move off the airstrip.

He was given a hard time by the two St Johnstone strikers and both goals came through the middle.

At the company's 70th-anniversary celebration near the Times Square Nathan's in 1986, Mr. Handwerker was being given a hard time by Mayor Edward I. Koch, who complained about the demise of the five-cent hot dog.

If he is given a hard time he will be the programme's noble martyr.

But this woman is not being given a hard time because of religion in general.

Writer noticed that many people "of color" seemed to be given a hard time by the INS.

My mother had resolved to shelter my brother and me from being given a hard time when we were growing up.