Example sentences of "go [prep] the [noun sg] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few men go through the experience of seeing their entire career , worked on and nurtured for years of effort , scattered in small and irrecoverable pieces at their feet . |
| 2 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 3 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's frustrating when we go to the trouble of providing better facilities for away supporters and then incidents like this happen . ’ |
| 5 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 6 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
| 7 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 8 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |