Example sentences of "not [verb] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , this did not stop the trouble . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 3 | Being kind to them would be the worst sort of sentimentality , or , as Ritchie delightfully puts it , ‘ a mere hypocritical formula to gratify pug-loving sentimentalists , who prate about a nature they will not take the trouble to understand ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) . |
| 4 | Offers made on the editorial pages need to be particularly attractive or the readers will not take the trouble to send off their stamped addressed envelope . |
| 5 | If the teacher does not take the trouble to present his class with reprographic material of an acceptably high standard , his students will be unlikely to take the trouble to try to read and understand it . |
| 6 | I might as well not take the trouble of calling . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand , many modern historians do not take the trouble to understand this administrative structure , or the diplomatic of the documents they use , which limits their ability to move between record series and across departments . |
| 8 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |
| 9 | Does he not recall the trouble that Clemens Krauss had with the last act at the at the 1944 dress rehearsal ? |
| 10 | Sentencing Cardow , Lord Abernethy said the accused had not started the trouble and had himself been injured . |
| 11 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 12 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |