Example sentences of "to the trouble " in BNC.
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31 | Well , that tie broke and my trousers kept coming down ; and that added to the trouble . |
32 | In both these cases the old plates made the necessary points , and there was no need to go to the trouble and expense of getting new ones . |
33 | Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter |
34 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
35 | More importantly , it 's er conveys to the client that we care about quality , that we 've gone to the trouble to set up procedures which make our product as good as it possibly can be . |
36 | The lift of autumn in the air went contrary to the trouble she could not make herself consider . |
37 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
38 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
39 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |
40 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
41 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
42 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
43 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
44 | She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’ |
45 | He did n't go to the trouble of setting up a little love-nest for nothing . ’ |
46 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
47 | It was better to let it rot out on the field then go to the trouble to carry it wet because it would only rot or become mouldy and absolutely useless . |
48 | But I grant you there are not many would have gone to the trouble . |
49 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
50 | We at least went to the trouble of asking them . ’ |
51 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
52 | And afterwards they went to the trouble of calling out the Carabinieri to make sure I did n't die of exposure . |
53 | ‘ Will there ever be an end to the trouble between Copts and Moslems ? ’ he asked wearily . |
54 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |
55 | If people have gone to the trouble and expense of referring |
56 | Why does an exchange go to the trouble of becoming an RIE , rather than lobbying to become an ISSRO , or simply joining the Securities and Futures Authority ( SFA ) or the SIB ? |
57 | I wonder how many times in the past , when you 've been staying here , you 've gone to the trouble of escorting Kirsty to school ? ’ |
58 | ‘ Believe me , I would n't go to the trouble of lying to you . ’ |
59 | No one goes to the trouble to dress up compliance so elaborately . |
60 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |