Example sentences of "the trouble of [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 2 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 3 | The funds can reclaim tax and pay income gross , saving charities the trouble of reclaiming the tax . |
| 4 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 5 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 6 | In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration . |
| 7 | Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter |
| 8 | The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching . |
| 9 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
| 10 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 12 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |