Example sentences of "go to the trouble of " in BNC.

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31 Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter
32 ‘ 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 ?
33 ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’
34 She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’
35 He did n't go to the trouble of setting up a little love-nest for nothing . ’
36 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 ?
37 ‘ Believe me , I would n't go to the trouble of lying to you . ’
38 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 ’ .
39 But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ?
40 ‘ It 's frustrating when we go to the trouble of providing better facilities for away supporters and then incidents like this happen . ’
41 ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’
42 Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated .
43 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
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