Example sentences of "[noun sg] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the trouble with boats on a rising tide is that when the tide goes out a lot of those boats are left high and dry . |
| 2 | All the children had been rushed indoors the moment the trouble started . |
| 3 | One day the troubles in Northern Ireland will be known all over the world , and the British will have to listen to us . |
| 4 | There were , at the time the trouble started , approximately 4,000 private beds in NHS hospitals out of a total of 400,000 hospital beds throughout the country . |
| 5 | In the process the wiring had become overloaded and was almost red hot by the time the trouble was diagnosed . |
| 6 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |