Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] trouble [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Football Association recorded 116 occasions between 1894 and 1914 when English league clubs were disciplined for trouble at their grounds . |
| 2 | And Rozario looks in trouble at the moment he is just er limping around he 's sunk back to his er hands on his knees again and well look at that he you do n't really need words to describe how he must be feeling at the moment . |
| 3 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 4 | ‘ There you go again , ’ she chided , ‘ looking for trouble around every comer . ’ |
| 5 | She had been heading for trouble by ever imagining that this man could be touched like any normal human being . |
| 6 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 7 | No , says Dusan Trancik , the Slovakian maker of seven features who has frequently got into trouble with the authorities . |
| 8 | The austere artistic ideals of Rome made little impression on the city of Veronese , who himself got into trouble with the Roman Inquisition for his secular treatment of a ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 9 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 10 | They had been caught playing mother and father in the hay rick and Tristram had got into trouble for it and Uncle Harry had said evil things and called her mother a whore . |
| 11 | I 'm sticking to the rules and I refuse to panic by paying over the odds because that 's how this club has got into trouble in the past . |
| 12 | But there 's a lot of them , there is , there is a whole different erm I mean , he married a girl from Pakistan , who got in real trouble , both of them got in trouble with their parents for it , because he was a Kenyan Indian and she was an Indian Indian or something , I do n't know . |
| 13 | She should have got in trouble by her Mum . |
| 14 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 15 | You also got into trouble about the press did n't you ? |
| 16 | The church 's numerous middle-of-the-roaders are concerned : although the charismatic movement tends to be pro-women ( the new Archbishop of Canterbury got into trouble for saying it was a ‘ heresy ’ to suggest that women should not conduct services ) , it is also anti-abortion , anti-homosexual and preoccupied with the devil . |
| 17 | Quite a lot of PCs got into trouble for that sort of thing , ‘ being reported for neglect of duty ’ , ‘ failing to keep the premises secure ’ . |
| 18 | I got ‘ crimed ’ for it , got into trouble for not searching it . |
| 19 | ( He was courting a friend and fellow student of mine , and used to fly low over the village and perform aerobatics to show his love for her until he got into trouble for it . ) |
| 20 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 21 | Another young man told me how a Lubavitch rabbi helped him when he got into trouble with the police . |
| 22 | ABOVE The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ( 1564–1642 ) , who got into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church because he stated in public that , as a result of his observations , he had come to the conclusion that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe . |
| 23 | One way we can examine the nature and extent of Jacobite sympathies amongst the populace is by looking at those who got into trouble with the law for Jacobite disaffection . |
| 24 | She says her son was a perfectly normal child until he reached 15 — when he got into trouble at trouble at school . |
| 25 | Boo does not conform to the community 's code because when he got into trouble at the age of 18 , his father , a very strict Baptist , undertook to punish his son himself , rather than let the law do it and for the rest of his life until he died , he kept his son away from the outside world and would not let him mix with the neighbours . |
| 26 | Mm Well you never hardly go ever got into trouble at school . |
| 27 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 28 | He got into trouble in Holland for exporting arms to a bunch of rebels in one of the new African states , and that seems to have been the end of his freight business . |
| 29 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 30 | Her sister , 10-year-old Claire , was amazed that people could make rude jokes and not get into trouble for it . |